The new directive EU health across borders which should be announced today plans to lift the restrictions on patients traveling to treatment in other EU countries. Patients who wish to travel to other EU countries for medical treatment will be able to recover the cost of NHS treatments and will only have to pay their travel and accommodation costs, as well as any top-up fees if foreign hospitals charges are higher than the NHS cost.
The directive can revolutionize the way we experience healthcare in the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe. The directive takes the concept of choice of patients to a new level. Competition European hospitals could request changes very necessary within the NHS. Successive Governments of the United Kingdom made token gestures for introducing market forces within the NHS. the NHS ranked 17 of 29 European countries recent euro index of consumer health, now faces effective competition on the European market.
The directive will provide a framework for crossing the border healthcare and will deal with issues such as quality of care, patient safety, method of financing and transfer of patient information. There are also plans to introduce "European reference networks" that would gather medical expertise across Europe and encourage greater collaboaration between centres of excellence.
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