Healthcare: Contentious

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Provided by McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Leaders in today’s healthcare sector must deal with an overlay of increasingly complex regulations

• Drafting and responding to proposals regarding internal trade rules for suppliers to the public sector
• Understanding the health environment in Canada with respect to the myriad existing statutes and acts
• Setting up companies from the private sector that are subject to health legislation
• Contract negotiations between governments and non-profit entities such as public laboratories, as well as between management and labour groups in hospitals
• Charitable initiatives and fundraising that involve foundations within health organizations
• Research and development agreements, joint ventures and public/private partnerships; corporate governance, bylaws, reorganizations, liability, security enforcement and regulatory compliance
• Patient consent, professional negligence and clinical trials