Cross Border Healthcare & Patient Mobility: Public Consultation on Scotland's Transposition and Implementation of Directive 2011/24 EU on the Application of Patients' Rights in Cross-border Healthcare.

This consultation document sets out the Scottish Government’s approach to implementation of the EU Directive on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare. It seeks views on the detail of the implementation, and examines the effects the Directive may have on Scotland’s health system.


Footnotes

1. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/1066/0006061.pdf

2. The Member States of the European Union plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway

3. h Case C- 372/04 The Queen, on the application of Yvonne Watts v Bedford Primary Care Trust and the Secretary of State for Health[2006] ECR I-4325 ("The Watts Judgement")

4. (Gibraltar is part of the EU as a "territory for whose external relations a Member State is responsible" - i.e. the UK)

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