Australia’s health and aged care industry faces significant challenges and funding pressures as demand on healthcare providers and service quality increases.

Cooper Grace Ward supports the health and aged care industry in both public and private spheres. We provide legal advice and support to government agencies, hospitals, aged care providers, individual medical and healthcare professionals, and health industry associations.

Our experience includes more than 10 years of legal advice to Queensland Health. We understand the operation and requirements of Queensland Health at hospital, district, zone and Corporate Office levels.

Cooper Grace Ward has strong ties with the Australasian College of Health Service Management (ACHSM) in Queensland. In recent years the ACHSM (formerly the ACHSE) has grown to become Australia's largest professional body representing health management. The firm has provided legal advice both to the ACHSM and its members.

Our lawyers are also active members of the Medico-Legal Society. This involvement and support of industry bodies ensures our team members are well informed about issues affecting the management and operations of health and aged care facilities.

Services we offer

Our services to the health and aged care industry include:

• Medical litigation, with specific expertise in cases involving:
  
  • Damage resulting from inappropriate surgical and medical treatment
  • Gynaecological treatment
  • Infection developing after surgical or medical treatment
  • Loss of consortium and servitium
  • Loss of dependency claims
  • Misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis
  • Needle-stick injuries to staff and patients
  • Negligent advice or 'failure to warn'
  • Obstetric treatment
  • Orthopaedic treatment
  • Physiotherapy treatment
  • Public liability
  • Pure Nervous Shock or psychiatric injury
  • Inquests into deaths in hospital or of hospital patients
  • Court Applications involving health service delivery
  • Advice on medico-legal issues
  • Applications and request for statutory access to documents
• Employment and workplace relations advice
• Commercial advice on, and preparation of, business contracts such as terms of trade and supply agreements
• Property advice including purchases, development, leasing and sales of health facilities
• General commercial litigation and dispute resolution
• Advice on tax and superannuation issues
• Intellectual property advice and protection strategies, as well as IT contracts
• Corporate governance, risk management and compliance including Trade Practices and Workplace Health and Safety compliance
• Clinical trials and related documentation.

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