Members of the European Union several committees vote this week if you want to make changes to the Community directive on cross-border healthcare. The directive aims to provide a framework for patient mobility, through which patients in a Member State shall be entitled to treatment in another State.
General Medical Council (GMC of United Kingdom), which regulates the country's medical 230000, is running a lobbying campaign to protect British seeking healthcare in Europe than he describes as "hazardous" doctors. the GMC wants the new Community legislation to give patients access to disciplinary history of clinical incompetent.
Quoted in the Guardian, Paul Philip, Deputy Chief Executive of the GMC says: "the vast majority of doctors do an excellent job in very difficult circumstances. However, when patients UK travel to continental Europe, there is a risk that they could be treated by a physician that do not fit to practise or not fully qualified to give the treatment needed. "
UK patients have full access to the records of the GMC and are able to verify that a physician has been disciplined, or is the subject of a disciplinary hearing. The GMC wants medical organisations in other countries to provide similar patients ' access to information about their doctors.
In the first nine months of 2008, the NHS UK paid for more than 500 British patients have treatment elsewhere in Europe. Some patients also were funded for their trusts of primary health care. It is estimated that another 80000 British funded its own treatment abroad.
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