Eversheds, DLA Piper, Hempsons, Bevan Brittan, Beachcroft and Browne Jacobson are all understood to have scooped multiple appointments on the various parts of the inaugural roster for the Healthcare Purchasing Consortium (HPC) and the London Procurement Programme (LPP).
Other successful firms appointed to at least one of the panel groupings include Hill Dickinson, Capsticks, Weightmans, HBJ Gateley Wareing, Michelmores and Mills & Reeve.
The new line-ups will provide comprehensive legal advice to the HPC and the LPP, the
The new roster is divided into nine specialist sub-panels covering governance and public law; primary care; mental health; employment; healthcare law; contract and commercial issues; corporate finance; public-private partnerships and private finance initiatives work and other issues.
The appointments, which carry two-year terms, took effect from last month.
The HPC and the LPP have joined forces in a cost-cutting drive designed to standardise rates and shave more than £1m off annual NHS spending. The new model is part of a new NHS framework for legal services and is eventually expected to centralise advice provided to the
One adviser told Legal Week: “There will be firms on there looking for the usual kind of high-volume, low-value work, but there will also be those that are hunting for the high-profile procurement and real estate instructions.”
