11 Amendments of Nessa CHILDERS related to 2017/2127(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the incidence of disability, which is higher among women in Europe, is expected to increase in the context of ageing population;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Reiterates its concern for vulnerable patients such as persons with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities, calls on Member States to ensure that a patient's right to informed consent to treatment is not unduly denied;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Expresses concern that there is often inadequate legal protection against multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination; asks the Commission and Member States to safeguard equal access to healthcare irrespective of a patients' disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, race or ethnic origin;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Recalls the reproductive rights enshrined in the CRPD, which encompass access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare, including family planning and maternal health services, and information and the right to give informed consent to all medical procedures, including sterilisation and abortion, and to retain fertility on an equal basis with others;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Calls on the Member States to ensure that all education, information, healthcare and services relating to sexual and reproductive health are made available to women and girls with disabilities in accessible and age- appropriate formats;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that the inability to avail of cross-border healthcare, when a patient cannot afford additional costs arising from disability, denies patients with disabilities the enjoyment of this right on an equal basis; urges the Commission and the Member States to ensure the non- discriminatory application of the Directive on patients' rights in cross-border healthcare;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Recommends that the Commission and the Member States collaborate with disabled patients' organisations to ensure that national contact points provide and disseminate information on cross-border healthcare rights in accessible formats;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Calls on the Commission to guide its evidence-gathering and policy-making activities by a human-rights based approach, so as to shift the focus from individual impairment and fully account for the barriers faced by persons with disabilities when their physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments interact with the external environment;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Urges the Member States to enable the adoption of the Horizontal Equal Treatment Directive, so as to extend protection against discrimination on grounds of disability, among others, in access to healthcare, and thus also counter multiple discrimination;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Encourages the Commission to follow up on the proposals to mobilise structural funding so as to train health professionals on disability awareness and specific gaps in knowledge about associated conditions;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Recommends that European structural funding for healthcare and other services be consistently steered to promote deinstitutionalisation and independent living in the community, as well as the involvement and consultation of patient organisations;