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Author: Publisher: The Stationery Office ISBN: 9780104014356 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 64
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A report that welcomes the proposal from the European Commission for a Directive on patients' rights to cross-border healthcare but calls for improvements and warns that, due to the unpredictable impact of the provisions in the Directive, it must be carefully monitored upon implementation.
Author: Publisher: The Stationery Office ISBN: 9780104014356 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 64
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A report that welcomes the proposal from the European Commission for a Directive on patients' rights to cross-border healthcare but calls for improvements and warns that, due to the unpredictable impact of the provisions in the Directive, it must be carefully monitored upon implementation.
Author: Publisher: The Stationery Office ISBN: 9780104014363 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 184
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A report that welcomes the proposal from the European Commission for a Directive on patients' rights to cross-border healthcare but calls for improvements and warns that, due to the unpredictable impact of the provisions in the Directive, it must be carefully monitored upon implementation.
Author: House of Lords European Union Committee Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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The right of patients from EU Member States to travel to another Member State to receive healthcare is a principle that has been confirmed on a number of occasions over the last ten years by the European Court of Justice, but uncertainty remains over how that right should function in practice. In an attempt to provide some clarity, the Commission published its proposal for a Directive on the application of patients' rights in cross-border healthcare.
Author: Nina Sahraoui Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1789207428 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 232
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Examining which actors determine undocumented migrants’ access to healthcare on the ground, this volume looks at what happens in the daily interactions between administrative personnel, healthcare professionals and migrant patients in healthcare institutions across Europe. Borders across Healthcare explores contemporary moral economies of the healthcare-migration nexus. The volume documents the many ways in which borders come to disrupt healthcare settings and illuminates how judgements of a health-related deservingness become increasingly important, producing hierarchies that undermine a universal right to healthcare.
Author: OECD Publisher: OECD Publishing ISBN: 9264805907 Category : Languages : en Pages : 447
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This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.
Author: Helena Legido-Quigley Publisher: World Health Organization ISBN: 9289071931 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 242
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People have always travelled within Europe for work and leisure, although never before with the current intensity. Now, however, they are travelling for many other reasons, including the quest for key services such as health care. Whatever the reason for travelling, one question they ask is "If I fall ill, will the health care I receive be of a high standard?" This book examines, for the first time, the systems that have been put in place in all of the European Union's 27 Member States. The picture it paints is mixed. Some have well developed systems, setting standards based on the best available evidence, monitoring the care provided, and taking action where it falls short. Others need to overcome significant obstacles.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9789279704864 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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European Union (EU) legislation gives EU citizens the right to receive healthcare services in all EU Member States, as well as the right to work in a different EU Member State. This is particularly important in order to ensure the health and well-being of EU citizens and to offer healthcare workers the opportunity to relocate where labour market needs exist. According to the available data, the mobility of patients and healthcare professionals across EU borders is quite low. However, studies show a strong willingness of healthcare personnel to work in a different Member States and of patients to access services in other countries. Multiple and interrelating factors contribute to the low mobility levels of patients, including: differences in the organisation and delivery of health services; differences in reimbursement procedures; tensions between healthcare authorities on the reimbursement of treatments; lack of information concerning the services available abroad; and lengthy procedures for the authorisation of services or their reimbursement. With regards to healthcare professionals, the main factors are differences in qualifications and job titles, and in some cases lengthy recognition of qualifications. Access to cross-border healthcare is particularly important for citizens living in cross-border regions, where access to healthcare in the neighbour country might be the best option in terms of proximity of care, access to healthcare services lacking the home country or to better quality services. Similarly, healthcare professionals can have access to more job opportunities and in some cases better working conditions; most importantly they can respond to the labour market needs of the neighbouring country. The case of the Torne Valley (or Tornio-Haparanda Region), situated in the Northern part of Finland and Sweden, is used to illustrate the obstacles of different healthcare systems in cross-border context. The Torne Valley region is characterised by a long history of cooperation, also in healthcare. However, some obstacles persist to cross-border mobility, both in terms of access to healthcare for patients and the mobility of health professionals. Differences in coverage and reimbursement of services, imbalances in the mobility of patients and professionals, lack of skilled personnel in some areas, difficulties in the use of IT and telemedicine; difficulties in sharing information between health centres and inadequate IT infrastructures are some of the issues that the case of the Torne Valley highlights. Some of these problems have been the object of cooperation and have been partly solved while others persist and will need further interventions and initiatives to be effectively addressed. The impact of these obstacles is not easily quantifiable, however, three main issues are worth noting: potential shortages and mismatches in the healthcare labour market; missed opportunities for increasing healthcare quality and healthcare delivery efficiency. These are highlighted in the report.
Author: Matthias Wismar Publisher: Observatory Studies ISBN: 9789289002219 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 0
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Cross-border health care has become a much more prominent phenomenon in the European Union. When in need of medical treatment, patients increasingly act as informed consumers who claim the right to choose their own providers, including those beyond borders. This book explores such trends and also looks at the legal framework for cross-border care as well as examining some of the uncertainties surrounding it. After the adoption of the Directive on the application of patient rights in cross-border care, Member States will now have to start implementing these provisions. One of the challenges will be to see how various national practices related to access, benefits and tariffs, quality and safety, patient rights, cooperation etc. will be affected by these new rules. The information and analysis presented in the study can be of considerable use to policy-makers and those with an interest in key aspects of cross-border health care to accompany or follow this process.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9789284719037 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The 2011 Cross‐border Healthcare Directive seeks to ensure EU patients’ rights to access safe and high‐quality healthcare, including across national borders within the EU. These rights are also intended to facilitate closer cooperation between Member States on eHealth and the treatment of rare diseases. We concluded that although EU actions in cross-border healthcare enhance Member States’ collaboration, the benefits for patients were limited. We found that despite the progress made on providing EU citizens with information on cross-border healthcare, in some areas this information remains difficult to access. We identified weaknesses in the Commission’s strategic planning and project management. We make recommendations focusing on the Commission’s support for national contact points, the deployment of cross-border exchanges of health data, and EU’s actions in the field of rare diseases.
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