Health Law
Throughout the years, we have built up extensive experience and specialization in the field of health law in the following areas:
Hospitals and other healthcare institutions
- programming and accreditation of hospitals, hospital functions, medical services, care programs
- funding of hospitals
- programming, accreditation requirements and the subsidy scheme for residential care facilities
- privacy and data protection
- public procurement in the health care sector
Healthcare Professionals
- the status and professional practice of health professions and paramedical professions
- disciplinary proceedings
- revocation of the visa
- intervention and control by the national healthcare insurance (RIZIV-INAMI)
- medical liability
- agreements and partnerships between healthcare providers or with healthcare institutions
- advertisement
Patients
- the patient rights act
- medical liability
- euthanasia, abortion
Medicines and medical devices
- registration, distribution and dispensing to the public of medicines
- pricing
- marketing, distribution and commissioning of medical devices
You can contact us as a government, healthcare institution, enterprise, healthcare professional or patient.
Our team
Anthony Poppe
Ellen Verschuere
Partner
Anthony Poppe
Anthony Poppe practices at the Ghent and Brussels Bar and is partner at Everest lawyers.
He practices public and administrative law in general with a particular focus on public contracts, health law, civil servants law and regulated professions. He assists his clients from the private and public sector in answering their legal questions in these matters, both in advisory work and in litigation before the courts, the Council of State and the Constitutional Court.
As a speaker and trainer, he regularly takes part in study days on various questions in his specialist areas and also writes about subjects in his preferred fields. He is a lecturer for ESCALA (Syntra group; public procurement and disciplinary law for police and local authorities).
Email:anthony.poppe@everest-law.be
Tel:+32 (0)9/334.94.70
Areas of expertise:Public and administrative law; Health Law
Associate
Ellen Verschuere
Ellen obtained her law degree with distinction from Ghent University in 2021. As part of the Erasmus+ program, she studied at the law faculty of the Université Côte d’Azur in Nice for five months during her Master’s studies. Subsequently, in 2022, Ellen obtained a Master of Laws in International and European Law from the Free University of Brussels with great distinction.
Ellen started her career in 2022 as a lawyer at the Dutch-speaking Bar in Brussels. Since September 2024, she has been registered as a lawyer at the Bar in Ghent and joined Everest Law Ghent.
Ellen is active in the public law department and developed a particular affinity for government contracts.
Email:ellen.verschuere@everest-law.be
Tel.:+32 (0)9 334 94 70
Expertise: Public and administrative law
