New deal for law company

Mar 25 2008 Evening Gazette

LAW firm Ward Hadaway has chalked up another major contract in the Tees Valley health sector.

The Newcastle-based solicitors have been chosen by Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust to provide all its external legal services for the next three years. It’s the latest in a series of wins for Ward Hadaway, which, earlier this month, was reappointed as one of just 11 firms in England on the NHS Litigation Authority's Clinical Negligence Panel.

In February, the firm was chosen by North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust to provide external legal advice on several areas, including a proposed new £400m hospital. And in 2007 it became sole external legal advisor to County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust.

Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Trust provides mental health, learning disability and addictive behaviour services to more than 1.4 million people across County Durham, Tees Valley and North Yorkshire and has one of the largest mental health NHS Trust areas in the country. Ward Hadaway previously worked with it on a £78m PFI scheme to replace St Luke's Hospital in Middlesbrough, which will see a 312-bed mental health facility built next to the existing hospital in Marton Road.