Health Care and EU Law
By: edited by Johan Willem Gronden, Erika Szyszczak, Ulla Neergaard, Markus Krajewski
Contributors: Szyszczak, Erika; Neergaard, Ulla; Krajewski, Markus; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Legal Issues of Services of General Interest
Publisher: T.M.C.ASSER PRESS and the author
Published: 2011
Place of publication: The Hague, The Netherlands
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9789067047272; 9789067047289
Subjects: Medicine; Public law; Law; Public health laws; Economics
Description: "The EU has only limited competence to regulate national health-care systems but recent developments have shown that health care is not immune from the effects of EU law. As Member States have increasingly experimented with new forms of funding and the delivery of health-care and social welfare services, health-care issues have not escaped scrutiny from the EU internal market and from competition and procurement rules. The market-oriented EU rules now affect these national experiments as patients and health-care providers turn to EU law to assert certain rights. The recent debates on the (draft) Directive on Patients' Rights further underline the importance, but also the difficulty (and controversy), of allowing EU law to regulate health care. The topicality of the range of issues related to health care and EU law was addressed, in October 2009, at a conference held in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The present volume contains inter alia the proceedings of this conference and invited essays"--Provided by publisher.