Healthcare professionals must obey the French Public Health Code, which forms an integral part of their professional ethical code. They work in a very specific legal environment and often have to turn to lawyers specialising in healthcare professional law for assistance.
They work in a very specific legal environment and often have to turn to lawyers specialising in healthcare professional law for assistance.
Healthcare professionals are generally classed into three categories:
Medical professionals, which include doctors, dental surgeons and midwives.
Pharmacy professionals, which include pharmacists and pharmaceutical assistants.
Auxiliary medical professionals, which includes other regulated healthcare professionals such as nurses, physiotherapists and kinesiotherapists, opticians, audiologists, dietitians, pedicurists and podiatrists, speech and language therapists and orthoptists.
Cabinet Barbey boasts extensive expertise in the field of healthcare professional legislation. The firm assists its clients with any legal problem they may have throughout their career, whether setting up an organisation, executing contracts with third parties or transferring organisations
The firm's competencies in healthcare professional law
Choosing the type of practice: private practitioner or trading company.
Drafting company bylaws and other formal paperwork related to setting up a company.
Assistance with procedures related to professional boards.
Partnership agreements.
Assistance and advice regarding relationships with healthcare companies, pharmaceutical laboratories and medical device manufacturers: ownership transparency legislation and the French anti-gift law (DMOS).
Legal assistance when transferring ownership of a pharmacy: drafting deeds of transfer for pharmacies and trading companies.
Assistance in submitting requests to practice on a different site or in a secondary medical practice.
Specific competencies for pharmacists
Legal assistance when transferring ownership of a pharmacy.
Compliance audits for websites to ensure adherence to the best industry practices for dispensing medicinal products online.
Drafting of General Sales Conditions for online points of sale.
Astrid Barbey, member of the Paris bar association
Astrid Barbey
Founder of the firm
Thanks to years spent practicing in both England and France in renowned law firms such as FTPA and Baker McKenzie, in addition to her work as an in-house lawyer for the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, Astrid Barbey has gained invaluable knowledge as both a lawyer and decision-maker, which she now draws on to help her own firm’s clients.
Astrid Barbey boasts extensive experience working with clients in the healthcare and life sciences sectors (health products, pharmaceutical industry, medical devices, biotechnology), in particular on an international level.
Astrid Barbey holds professional diplomas in European business law from the University of Nancy (France) and Lancaster University Law School (United Kingdom).
Cabinet Barbey is a leader in the fields of:
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Health, Pharma & Biotechnologies
Regulatory law
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Health, Pharma & Biotechnologies
Digital health
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Competition & Distribution
Health and pharma industry
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tél : + 33 1 83 62 36 99
26 avenue de la Grande Armée - 75017 Paris
Accès : Argentine / Ch. De Gaulle-Etoile
