Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Healthcare" produced 49 items.
| 1. Counting the cost of a healthy society | September 8, 2011 |
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Member states' healthcare systems will come under increasing strain in the coming years. Life expectancy in the EU has improved markedly in recent decades, up by six years... | |
| 2. A breakthrough for transparency in healthcare | May 19, 2011 |
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Directive on cross-border healthcare will affect many European citizens. In a recent article on cross-border healthcare (“Have illness, will travel?”, 24-30 March), you... |
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| 3. Commission wants to include public services in trade negotiations | May 12, 2011 |
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Trade official hope to open up public services to private competition. To boost external trade opportunities, the European Commission is seeking to make changes within the... |
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| 4. Kroes calls for greater advances in e-health | January 27, 2011 |
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Technology can help prevent a 'guaranteed collapse' of health systems, says commissioner.
Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner for the digital agenda, has called for... | |
| 5. Ministers strike cross-border healthcare deal | June 8, 2010 |
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Spain's compromise text wins backing of member states. A directive intended to help people get healthcare treatment wherever they are in the EU moved a step closer... | |
| 6. Spain revives plans for cross-border healthcare | June 3, 2010 |
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Spain engineers a compromise text, but proposal falls far short of Commission hopes. The European Union's health ministers will next week breathe new life into a draft law... |
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| 7. eHealth – a driver for growth and innovation? | March 8, 2010 |
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What can information technologies do to improve the delivery of healthcare? How should the gap between promise and practice be closed? These questions become ever more... | |
| 8. Decades of failing the world's poor | December 3, 2009 |
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Starved of resources, developing countries have struggled to put in place the infrastructure necessary to deliver healthcare. In 1970 the rich world promised a dramatic... |
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| 9. A guardian against discrimination stops fighting? | November 19, 2009 |
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Why are member states discriminating against the anti-discrimination directive? Eurobarometer recently published a survey that once again showed that there is a serious... | |
| 10. Patient choice: Pandora's box? How can patients influence safety and quality standards in healthcare? | May 26, 2009 |
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A European Voice Health-check debate
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| 11. MEPs back cross-border healthcare plan | March 31, 2009 |
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Committee supports proposal but Socialists withhold their support. A proposal aimed at making it easier for patients to get healthcare outside their home country was backed... | |
| 12. We should respect the wishes of all patients | February 19, 2009 |
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Policymakers need to accommodate our desire to determine how we care for our health. Patients' rights are an important issue (‘Health quarterly: patients' rights', 12-18... | |
| 13. Access to treatments: which rights for patients? | February 17, 2009 |
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A European Voice Health-check debate
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| 14. Uncommon difficulty in implementing common principles | February 12, 2009 |
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Technical and aspirational parts of the healthcare proposal will be difficult to deal with. There is a lot more to the proposal on cross-border healthcare than the parts... |
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| 15. Health policy dogged by controversy | February 12, 2009 |
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Growing EU influence on cross-border healthcare is increasingly provoking political and legal battles. It all began with young Miss Kroll's irregular teeth. Her father, from... |
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| 16. Health tourism proves popular | February 12, 2009 |
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Medical treatment in far-flung destinations is becoming a cheaper and more attractive option. Travelling for medical treatment outside the European Union is becoming an... | |
| 17. What rights for patients? | February 12, 2009 |
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Healthcare in the European Union is riddled with political and economic challenges, but the law is shifting to give individual patients the treatment they are entitled to.... |
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| 18. Technology helps ease the health burden | February 12, 2009 |
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Limited resources and growing demand are challenges for every EU member state. The European Union has 27 different health systems, but they all face a common problem:... |
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| 19. Pensions time-bomb puts sustainable future in doubt | October 23, 2008 |
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EU member states must do more to combat the financial threat presented by an ageing society. Europe's ageing society poses a major threat to member states' public finances,... |
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| 20. Medical tourism may be eased | July 2, 2008 |
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European Commission sets out plans to improve patients' access to operations and treatments in other European countries.
European citizens will be able to shop around... | |
