Healthcare

Health law / Medical disciplinary law / Medical liability law / Governance management and supervision / Collaborations in healthcare / Mergers, takeovers and investments / Control by health insurers / Life sciences / Medical devices

The need to manage healthcare costs, the wish to increase the checks and balances within healthcare institutions and the desire to prevent the misuse of healthcare funds, leads the government to constantly propose new legislation that the healthcare sector needs to implement. In addition to this, the increased focus on data protection and the wide range of possibilities for innovative solutions confronts directors of healthcare institution with a lot of challenges. The same can be said of producers of medical devices that have to meet the Medical Device Regulation and the EU Regulation on in vitro diagnostic medical devices since their introduction. With the right legal partner who knows your organization and objectives well, shares knowledge and expertise and suggests pragmatic solutions, these challenges can also offer opportunities for growth and innovation.

Issues and solutions

Collaboration
In the fast changing healthcare sector, many healthcare institutions realise they need to join forces with other healthcare providers. Saving costs, increasing the quality of care and stimulating innovation are driving forces behind this trend. Healthcare providers must collaborate and make agreements that are both sound and flexible. What is each partners contribution in the partnership? What are the consequences for the workforce? What are the boundaries of competition law to take into account?
To form successful collaborations – from both a legal and financial perspective – legal knowledge has to be combined with sound economic sense.

We offer the special combination of corporate law expertise with years of experience in the healthcare sector. In addition we draw on the expertise of other departments to cover all aspects of a collaboration such as privacy, labour law, compliance, competition law, financing and employee participation.
We are involved in setting up partnerships, creating new healthcare institutions and joint ventures, and effectuating mergers and acquisitions. We also advise on good governance and privacy issues, assist with the negotiations of and implementation of IT projects and assist with tenders.

Our clients

We work for all kinds of care providers, including hospitals, mental healthcare institutions, treatment clinics, care homes and primary care providers. Independent professionals, such as doctors, dentists, nurses and therapists also turn to us for legal advice when they are faced with claims from patients.

Our team

Our Healthcare team includes lawyers from different practice areas, all of them with plenty of experience in the healthcare sector. The combination of knowledge regarding corporate law, governance, compliance, competition law, financing, employee participation and privacy enables us to provide a holistic view on the issues and effective advice for all forms of collaboration, mergers and joint ventures.
Our Healthcare team delivers pragmatic, legal solutions and our personal touch supports fruitful connections between parties in the healthcare sector.

Fenna van Dijk leads the Healthcare team.

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