Louise’s key clients include NHS commissioners and providers, independent healthcare and social care providers, and digital healthcare and medtech companies.  

She has been practising since 2015 and advises clients on a range of matters, including clinical services arrangements, framework and call‑off arrangements, outsourcing, and public/private collaborations.  She has advised both NHS providers and independent operators on contractual and corporate JV arrangements, led multi‑trust programmes (e.g. - LIMS and managed pathology), and delivers clear governance and accountability in integrated service models. 

With in‑house secondments to an NHS foundation trust and two private providers, and prior counsel roles in outsourcing and IT, she brings pragmatic and commercial insight to drafting and negotiating commercial agreements and project delivery, while keeping risk allocation, performance, and implementation front and centre.  

Louise’s experience includes: 

• Advising on a joint instruction basis for four NHS trusts in relation to the procurement of a laboratory information management system (LIMS). Louise was a key part of the team, working with and co-ordinating advice from a team of lawyers advising on all aspects of the project, from commercial, employment, and property aspects as well as helping the clients with project management aspects required by the collaboration 

• Advising an NHS foundation Trust on a joint venture model with primary care providers to support the integration of services between primary and secondary care services  

• Working with four NHS trusts (both NHS foundation trusts and NHS trusts) on a common interest basis, in connection with the formal commercial structure to be adopted to offer a single managed pathology service its region 

• Supporting an independent healthcare provider (IHP) with a wholesale review of its patient terms and conditions to ensure alignment with market best practice and consumer law requirements.  Following the judgment of Bartolomucci, Louise worked with the IHP to further amend the T&Cs to ensure clarity in the contractual arrangements agreed between the IHP and its patients, in particular, ensuring clear lines of accountability and liability in the care and treatment provided by the IHP, and independent consultants.