Health care and EU law

The aim of the present volume is to explore the consequences of the impact ofthe 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. The book approaches the issue of health care not only from the perspectiveof patient mobility but also from the angle of competition law, public procurement law and WTO law. It provides the reader with a comprehensive view of theimpact of (European) market law on national health care. Compulsory reading for everyone who is engaged in issues of health care and EU law. INDICE: 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 orMissed Opportunity?. The Draft Patient Mobility Directive and the Co-ordination Regulations of Social Security. Cooperation between Health Care Authoritiesin 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. Experiences from the Netherlands: The Application of Competition Rules in Health Care. Part IV: Furtherissues of EU Health Care Law. Health Care Planning and the EU Internal MarketLaw. Public Procurement Law and Health Care: From Theory to Practice. PatientMobility beyond Calais: Health Services under WTO law. Part V: Conclusion. Conclusions: Constructing a ‘Solid’ Multi-Layered Health Care Edifice. Table of Cases.

  • ISBN: 978-90-6704-727-2
  • Editorial: T.M.C. Asser Press
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 505
  • Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés