Healthcare & Allied Health

We assist our clients across the full spec­trum of the health­care and allied health­care sec­tor. In Aus­tralia, the sec­tor is a com­pre­hen­sive sys­tem that includes both pub­lic and pri­vate operators. 

Our clients include, pri­vate hos­pi­tals, clin­ics, prac­ti­tion­ers and spe­cial­ists. This sec­tor is defined by crit­i­cal ser­vices and indus­tries that pro­mote, main­tain, mon­i­tor, and restore health to indi­vid­u­als and com­mu­ni­ties. We there­fore recog­nise the mar­ket pres­sures affect­ing this sec­tor includ­ing the com­plex reg­u­la­to­ry and fund­ing envi­ron­ment, the chal­lenges of main­tain­ing clin­i­cal stan­dards, work­force and employ­ment pres­sures, and com­pe­ti­tion issues.

Our exper­tise extend to the full range of cor­po­rate, com­mer­cial, employ­ment and prop­er­ty and devel­op­ment aspects with­in the health and allied health­care sec­tor. Our expe­ri­ence encom­pass­es a wide range of hos­pi­tals, pri­vate prac­tices, com­mu­ni­ty health cen­tres, and pri­vate practices. 

Clients in this space include:

• Pri­vate hospitals
• Phar­ma­cies
• Diag­nos­tic professionals
• Occu­pa­tion­al therapists
• Phys­io­ther­a­pists 
• Psy­chol­o­gists
• Den­tists
• Pri­vate clinics
• Vet­eri­nar­i­ans

Use­ful links:

• Depart­ment of Health and Aged Care
• Health Prac­ti­tion­er Reg­u­la­tion Nation­al Law (NSW)
• Pri­va­cy Act 1988 (Cth)
• Aged Care Act 1997 (Cth)
• Aus­tralian Health Prac­ti­tion­er Reg­u­la­tion Agency

No mat­ter how rou­tine or com­plex the busi­ness issues you face, Mer­i­tas’ net­work of law firms is with you every step of the way. Mar­ket-lead­ing firms offer a full range of legal ser­vices, which enable you to do busi­ness any­where. Wise coun­sel and prac­ti­cal solu­tions are just a phone call or e‑mail away. Dis­cov­er the breadth and depth of the prac­tice and indus­try sec­tor capa­bil­i­ties avail­able to you through Meritas.

• Mer­i­tas Prac­tice + Indus­try Sectors