Fiona Payne

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What can I do for you

Fiona is a specialist commercial health lawyer. She has extensive experience of clinical services contracting and procurement, including advising on many high profile and novel NHS projects. Fiona also regularly advises on NHS legislation and policy, governance issues, commissioning, primary care (medical, dental and community pharmacy) and integrated and partnership working, including new care models.

What do others say

Clients describe Fiona as providing "excellent support and advice" which is "quick and commercial". On a recent major commissioning project the client said she is "responsive and professional, providing focused advice against pressurised timescales".

Supporting your ambitions

Fiona takes pride in helping clients put successful patient services in place. She has recently worked on a ground breaking procurement for an integrated care organisation to run a long term contract for out of hospital services integrated with primary care. She is also helping to deliver a major commissioning project for integrated health and care services under an innovative model of care. Fiona has helped many clients resolve a range of complex issues to successfully conclude multi-million pound procurements. She also helps clients in successfully and robustly removing inadequate and unsafe services.

What else should you know?

Fiona's paper on the implications of proposed reforms to health legislation was quoted in the Bill Committee debate that helped shape the final legislation. She was delighted to make a positive contribution to the development of legislation affecting her clients.

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What our clients say about us

“I think Mills & Reeve are a wonderful firm. The support they have provided to us in a really difficult area has been brilliant, collaborative and commercially minded. The team were absolutely wonderful and a joy to work with. Amazing advice and support and a real collaborative effort with us. I can't thank them enough for getting us through some really tough times and doing so with an amazing can-do attitude.”

“They are friendly, fast, always available and always on top of the game. I tend to judge my legal team against the other side's legal team and never doubt Mills & Reeve is the better of the two.”

“All interactions have been very clear. Responses to questions have always been very swift and unambiguous. Our company, and my family, have used various services in Mills & Reeve with the same level of satisfaction.”

“I value the fact that Mills & Reeve are recognised as a good place to work in the UK Best Companies survey. This aligns with the values of our business and means that Mills & Reeve can share what is required to achieve this status with our business.”