Cooper Grace Ward supports the health industry by providing legal advice and support to hospitals, medical practitioners and industry associations within the public and private health sectors.

Cooper Grace Ward has a dedicated health law and medical litigation team that has over 50 years combined experience in the provision of medico-legal services to healthcare facilities and their staff.

Our team is led by Carol Lee, whose inclusion in Best Lawyers: Australia Health and Aged Care in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, is a testament to the high level of service and experience she and her team offers to their clients.

Our team is highly regarded for their ability to deliver high quality, practical legal solutions and personalised client service to healthcare facilities and their people in relation to:

• incident management and investigation including root cause analysis
• clinical and open disclosure and claim prevention, including management of patient complaints
• pre litigation proceedings and litigated claims
• HQCC assessments, investigations and conciliations
• police investigations
• coronial investigations and inquests
• matters involving AHPRA and the respective Boards, including registration disputes, investigations, health assessments, disciplinary actions and appeals;
• credentialing and privileges
• advance health directives, enduring powers of attorney and guardianship related matters, including applications to QCAT
• risk management
• confidentiality and administrative access

Team members pride themselves on personalised, efficient and cost effective service which includes 24/7 accessibility.

The team are regularly sought out to present education for their clients and key industry groups within the public and private sectors across Queensland.

The team is well supported by the highly experienced specialist teams of corporate and commercial, property, family, employment and workplace relations, litigation and dispute resolution members of which make up our health industry support group.