Bleddyn Rees is a vastly experienced commercial lawyer with 25 years advising on outsourcings, privatisations, complex contracts and projects.
Bleddyn leads the Healthcare practice at International law firm Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co. and has unique experience for a private sector lawyer having spent 3 and a half years on secondment as the General Counsel of the Commercial Directorate of the UK Department of Health.
Bleddyn has advised Health Ministers, the Secretary of State for Health, the Prime Minister and Special Health Advisors during his time on secondment. He has spoken at International Health conferences and visited International Health facilities and systems on behalf of the NHS and gives evidence at the Health Select Committee.
He provides extensive advice on healthcare regulations, commissioning and contracting for healthcare services, partnerships, collaborations and public private partnerships in the health sector. His Clients include the Departments of Health, NHS Hospitals & Commissioners as well as private health & social care providers, healthcare suppliers, technology businesses, banks and private equity funders. He has extensive experience advising Governments in the Middle East on the development of their healthcare systems.
Bleddyn is an expert in Connected Health (digital, eHealth, mHealth and telecare) and is a Non-Executive Director of the European Connected Health Alliance, Europe’s largest membership organisation promoting connected health at scale on commercial terms through the creation of permanent geographic Ecosystems (www.echalliance.com). He is on the Industry Advisory Board of Health Innovation Network (the South London Academic Health Science Network) and CreateHealth, a digital agency specializing in healthcaremarket insight (www.createhealth.io)
