The care sector has had the media spotlight trained on it for much of this year. We are also seeing signs of increasing distress in the healthcare supply chain. In this edition of Healthcheck, we highlight some of the generic issues facing this crucial sector of our economy.

As always in heavily regulated sectors, it is imperative to use advisers with genuine expertise. We are therefore, delighted to include articles from Edward Symmons, exploring their navigation of some of the pitfalls in dealing with the failure of a pharmaceutical distributor, and from Charles Russell LLP, setting out some of the legal considerations in selling a pharmacy out of insolvency.

Finally, we examine some current commercial issues facing the pharmacy sector, an area where we have seen increasing numbers of instructions during 2011.

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