Activities of Frieda BREPOELS related to 2008/0142(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Patients' rights in cross-border healthcare (debate)
Amendments (12)
Amendment 208 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2
Article 2
This Directive shall apply to the provision of healthcare regardless of how it is organised, delivered and financed or whether it is public or private.
Amendment 273 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 - point (f)
Article 4 - point (f)
Amendment 297 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 - point (l)
Article 4 - point (l)
(l) "harm" means adversvoidable outcomes or injuries stemming from the provision of healthcare.
Amendment 339 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) healthcare providers provide all relevant information to enable patients to make an informed choice, in particular on their registration status, availability, prices and outcomes of the healthcare provided and details of their insurance cover or other means of personal or collective protection with regard to professional liability. Patients must be enabled to understand this information as fully as possible (if necessary with the aid of an interpreter or a translation);
Amendment 425 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 5
Article 6 – paragraph 5
5. Patients travelling to another Member State with the purpose of receiving healthcare there or seeking to receive healthcare provided in another Member State shall be guaranteed access to their medical records, in conformity with nationalthe measures implementing Community provisions on the protection of personal data, in particular Directives 95/46/EC and 2002/58/EC of the Member State of affiliation.
Amendment 431 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. The Member State of treatment shall not be required to accept patients from another Member State or to assign them priority to the detriment of patients with similar care needs who are insured in the Member State of treatment and who might as a result possibly be placed on a waiting list.
Amendment 466 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. This list shall be set up and may be regularly updated by the Commission. Those measures, designed to amend non- essential elements of this Directive by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 19(3).
Amendment 549 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. The Member States of affiliation shall ensure that there are mechanisms in place to provide patients on request with information on receiving healthcare in another Member State, and the terms and conditions that would apply, inter alia, whenever harm is caused as a result of healthcare received in another Member State. Member States shall ensure that this information is independent, complete and unbiased.
Amendment 568 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – introductory paragraph
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – introductory paragraph
2. The national contact point in the Member State of affiliation shall, in close cooperation with other competent national authorities, and with national contact points in other Member States, in particular in the Member State of treatment, and with the Commission:
Amendment 584 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
(ba) help patients to exercise their rights in the consultation of their medical records as provided for in Article 6(5);
Amendment 630 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) measures to ensure that medicinal products prescribed in one Member State and dispensed in another are correctly identified on the basis of International Non-proprietary Name (INN) only and that the information to patients concerning the product is comprehensible;
Amendment 662 #
Article 15 - paragraph 3 - point a - introductory part
(a) a list of specific criteria and conditions that the European reference networks must fulfil, including the list of rarer disease and life-threatening, difficult-to-treat disease areas to be covered, the conditions and criteria required from healthcare providers wishing to join the European reference networks, in order to ensure, in particular, that the European reference networks: