Reputation
Management
Health and social care providers and
commissioners, in the public and private
sector, are frequently confronted by
situations giving rise to reputational
risk: from operational issues, high profile
inquiries or challenges to decisions, to
critical media coverage - or even covert
filming - of a patient experience.
Protecting
Faced with threats of this nature, you need a strategy to safeguard your organisation’s reputation whilst doing everything possible to protect and support your staff and retain the confidence of stakeholders. You also need a highly responsive team that understands the legal and political worlds that you operate in. Our lawyers are all health and social care specialists. Our depth of experience and training ensures that we can advise and inform your response to any challenge facing your organisation. Our knowledge of the healthcare sector means that we can gauge the risks quickly and help you develop the right strategy to respond to and manage effectively a rapidly developing situation.
“Focused and commercial, identifying pragmatic solutions to our problems”
The healthcare business inside out
Capsticks has been working in partnership with the healthcare sector for 30 years. We work with 200 healthcare businesses both in and outside the NHS. We make it our business to know the healthcare business better than anyone else, and because we have an in depth understanding of the issues that are likely to affect you, we’ll find the right answer for you. With healthcare legal experts across the board, we have the flexibility to deploy a dedicated team that can answer your needs, whatever the project or challenge facing you. A lead partner
will be responsible for providing you with a seamless service. Reputational issues are a key consideration in the advice we give and we will deliver tailored, commercial advice to enable you to achieve your required outcome, giving a strong lead whenever required.
As a specialist niche firm, we work flexibly and efficiently and can therefore offer a range of pricing options designed for different types and volumes of legal work. You pay for your legal service in a way that suits you. Capsticks Solicitors LLP
Our team’s immersion in healthcare means that we can always provide advice reflecting and addressing reputational concerns. Work we undertake in helping clients to protect their reputations includes:
Handling challenges to service reconfiguration or treatment funding decisions
Protecting operational threats through the actions of external contractors
Responding to and assisting with external inquiries
Assisting in liaison with external investigations by CQC, the Health and Safety Executive and Police
Responding to adverse publicity in:
Local and national print media Online coverage
Social networks
Responding to covert filming by broadcasters
Cases we have been involved in include:
Public inquiries and other tribunals investigating issues including Mid Staffordshire Hospital NHS Trust, Baby P and 7 July bombings
Responses to covert filming in NHS trusts by BBC Panorama and Channel 4 Dispatches Investigations and prosecutions
by HSE
Liaison with media and PR advisers in judicial reviews of service reconfiguration
What we can do for you
Reputation Management
What the UK’s legal directories say about us
“This firm is all about healthcare and offers an impressive national practice of great depth and range.” “A highly efficient, well-oiled machine… with no weak links in the chain.”
“Clients commend Capsticks for being particularly media-savvy when something hits the press.”
“The best niche law firm in healthcare...”
“This market leader knows the health business inside-out, and establishes a rapport with clinicians and managers very quickly.”
Quotes taken from Legal 500 and Chambers UK
What our clients say about us
“Genuinely I do think the Trust has received an exceptional service from Capsticks this year in helping us to navigate through some particularly tricky issues.”
Director of Nursing and Operations, Mental Health Trust
“Capsticks provides a service that is more than just the ‘legals’. They understand the business pressures on us as a foundation trust, and have a range of solutions that are delivered in a joined-up way.”
Chief Executive, Foundation Trust
“Capsticks are a trusted source of clear, pragmatic and user-friendly legal advice and provide first class customer service; we are always able to seek advice at short notice when required, including over the telephone and face-to-face, and it is always provided to an excellent standard and with good humour.”
Director of Corporate Affairs, Acute Trust
To find out more about our Reputation
Management Services please visit
www.capsticks.com or if you wish to speak
to somebody please call one of our team.
Like to know more?
David Firth Partner 0113 322 5566 [email protected] Gary Hay Partner 0121 230 1522 [email protected] Gerard Hanratty Partner 020 8780 4837 [email protected] Daniel Purcell Partner 020 8780 4784 [email protected]
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