Activities of Richard SULÍK related to 2018/2108(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the implementation of the Cross-border Healthcare Directive
Amendments (8)
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Recommends the Commission to develop guidelines on informing patients about step-by-step procedures for using the cross-border health care services and to create standardised templates for all types of forms required in cross-border healthcare, in cooperation with the involvement of patient organisations;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Recommends to Member States to publish accurate and easily understandable information about step- by-step procedures for using the cross- border health care services;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2 c. Asks Member States and National Contact Points to inform patients beyond generic information, such as links to national laws or regulatory documents and to provide practical and easily understandable complex legal and medical information;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Recommends the Commission to establish and publish benchmarks and key indicators for quality of healthcare and patient safety and compare information across institutions and Member States;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Reminds that eHealth applications are financed or co-financed from the Union´s budget, therefore highlights the Commission should more actively address the lack of interoperability between Member States’ eHealth solutions;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Asks the Commission to identify the Member States with interoperable and properly functioning eHealth solutions and their individual functionalities;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Welcomes the pending audit of the European Court of Auditors on whether implementation of the Directive to date has been effective, and whether cross- border healthcare is delivering benefits to patients; strongly encourages the Commission and the Member States to take the recommendations of this audit into account;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Encourages Member States to highly consider the undue delay rule of reimbursement for cross-border health care services introduced by Directive and not to apply burdensome requirements not justified by Directive such as documents certified by a consul in the country of treatment, a sworn translation of invoices or a referral from a medical professional in the home country, annual reimbursement limit for cross-border care;