The consultation on patients' mobility (see our articles n°06857) was launched by the European Commission. The main parties of the healthcare sector are invited to give their opinion until January 31st, 2007. Beyond patients' mobility, the consultation deals with access to healthcare, the foundations of the health care system and the balance to be found between an opened healthcare market and the constraints of financing and planning of supply. (Ref. 06949)
The consultation questions healthcare professionals on the following issues :
- What is the impact of cross-border care on the accessibility, the quality and the financing of health care?
- How to secure the mobility of patients? The need for a legal framework is felt at several levels: 1/ The CJEC has laid down the foundations of patients’ complete freedom of movement when it comes to ambulant care, and limited freedom for hospital care, but the implementation by Member State remains timorous. The
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