Health Care and EU Law [Paperback]

The aim of the present volume is to explore the consequences of the impact of the EU rules for the internal market (including the proposed Directive on patients rights) and competition on national health care systems. It will also address how related areas, such as EU public procurement law and WTO law, influence national healthcare organisation and Member State autonomy.This book explores the consequences of the impact of the EU rules for the internal market, including the proposed Directive on patients rights, competition on national health care systems, and related areas.

Introduction

Part I: Foundations

EU Health Care Law in a Constitutional Light: Distribution of Competences, Notions of Solidarity, and Social Europe

Discrimination and Beyond

Part II: The (Draft) Patients Rights Directive and Internal Market Issues

The Case Law of the European Court of Justice on the Mobility of Patients: A Defence

Patients Rights: A Lost Cause or Missed Opportunity?

The Draft Patient Mobility Directive and the Co-ordination Regulations of Social Security

Cooperation between Health Care Authorities in the Proposed Directive on Patients Rights in Cross-border Health Care

Legislating For Patients Rights

Disrupting the Community  Saving Public Health Ethics from the EU Internal Market

Health Care, the United Kingdom and the Draft Patients Rights Directive: One Small Step for Patient Mobility but a Huge Leap for a Reformed NHS?

Part III: Competition Law and Health Care Issues

The Treaty Provisions on Competition and Health Care

BUPA; a Healthy Case, in the Light of a Changing Constitutional Setting in Europe?

EU Law and the Organisation of Health Care: Experiences from Germany

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