Are you seeking consultation with a physician abroad? Do you wish to obtain surgery in a foreign hospital? Are you planning to travel cross-border in order to receive specialised treatment? Under Directive 2011/24/EU every EU/EEA citizen has the right to receive both public or private health ser...
All EU Member States face strong and growing fiscal pressures on their health and long-term care systems, driven by already high levels of public expenditure and debt in most countries, demographic pressures and technological advances. Further policy action will therefore be needed to safeguard ...
European Union policy in the field of health is aimed at complementing and supporting national health policies, encouraging cooperation between Member States (MS) and promoting coordination between their programmes. The Directive 2011/24/EU on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border ...
In this opinion, the Expert Panel on effective ways of investing in Health (EXPH) addresses the role of competition among health care providers as an instrument to improve efficiency in the use of health system resources. As an instrument, the use of competition among health care providers needs...
In 2010, the ECOFIN Council gave the Economic Policy Committee (EPC) a mandate to update its common exercise of age-related expenditure projections by the autumn of 2012 on the basis of a new population projection by Eurostat. The long-term age-related expenditure projections provide an indicati...