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Developments in the Netherlands on preventing unwanted influence of healthcare professionals by medical companies

On 8 April 2024, the Dutch Minister of Medical Care (the Minister) sent a letter to the Dutch House of Representatives (Kamerbrief) outlining certain measures she intends to prepare to prevent unwanted influence of healthcare professionals by medical companies. This letter is part of an ongoing trajectory of the Dutch government, focusing on transparency in the medical industry and the prevention of unwanted influence of health care professionals. In this article, we outline...

April 30, 2024

6 min read

General

Alexandre Vuchot

Johanna Harelimana

Nour Saab

Circular economy: what impact for healthcare playe...

Environmental awareness and the desire to limit or eliminate...

September 28, 2023

6 min read

Medical Devices

Hester Borgers

Christian Lindenthal

AI and the life sciences, navigating the complex legal...

Bird & Bird’s international life sciences and healthcare...

August 10, 2023

5 min read

Healthcare

Sophie Vo

AI as a Medical Device

To add to all the chatter about AI, let's talk about AI...

May 22, 2023

3 min read

General

Sophie Vo

Proposed updates to the regulation of medical devices

While it might be challenging for manufacturers of medical devices to navigate the evolving regulations...

May 10, 2023

3 min read

Biotech

An international overview of the regulatory legislation concerning telemedicine

Telemedicine has been available to healthcare providers for several years. However, it was not until quite...

April 24, 2023

1 min read

General

Deirdre Kilroy

Georgina Parkinson

The Impact of the NIS2 Directive and the CER Directive for Medical Device Manufacturers and the Healthcare Sector

The rise in the volume of cyber incidents, the war in Ukraine, and the recent pandemic, has increased...

February 17, 2023

9 min read

General

Pieter Erasmus

Hadrien Espiard

Update on the UK’s future medical device regulations: Extended timelines

The UK’s Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has recently announced the introduction...

October 31, 2022

2 min read

Medical Devices

Simone Cadeddu

Mauro Turrini

Nadia Feola

The Activation of Payback on Medical Devices

The Italian Ministry of Health, in a Decree dated 6 July 2022, certified the overrun of the expenditure...

October 7, 2022

1 min read

Biotech

Chris de Mauny

Domien Op de Beeck

Final(ly) Rules of Procedure of the UPC

Apart from the Unified Patent Court Agreement and a large body of further treaties, regulations,...

July 18, 2022

1 min read