Traduction de «aide aux soins des patients » (Français → Anglais) :

in case of overriding reasons of general interest (such as the risk of seriously undermining the financial balance of a social security system) a member state of affiliation may limit the application of the rules on reimbursement for cross-border healthcare; member states may manage the outgoing flows of patients also by asking a prior authorisation for certain healthcare (those which involve overnight hospital accommodation, require a highly specialised and cost-intensive medical infrastructure or which ...[+++]raise concerns with regard to the quality or safety of the care) or via the application of the "gate-keeping principle", for example by the attending physician;

Improve strategies for patient safety based on the outcomes of the Action called ‘Study on costs of unsafe care and cost-effectiveness of patient safety programmes’ launched by the Commission in collaboration with the Patient Safety and Quality of Care Working Group;

TAKES NOTE of the fact that according to the special Eurobarometer survey ‘Patient Safety and Quality of Care’ (13) just over half (53 %) of all EU citizens think that patients could be harmed by hospital care in their country, while half of the respondents think that they can be harmed by non-hospital healthcare and that these percentages have not significantly decreased since 2009;

RECALLS that Recommendation 2009/C 151/01 and Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011 on the application of patients' rights in cross-border healthcare (7) request that patients receive healthcare in accordance with safety and quality standards and guidelines and clarify the right to receive information, in a clear and transparent way, as regards safety and quality measures in place and complaints procedures and redress mechanisms;

WELCOMES the work of the European Network for Patient Safety and Quality of Care (Joint Action PaSQ) on the implementation of Recommendation 2009/C 151/01 as regards the exchange and implementation of good practices in Member States;

the Conclusions of the Council and of the Representatives of the Member States meeting in the Council of 19 July 2002 on patient mobility and health care developments in the European Union ; the report of 8 December 2003 from the high level process of reflection on patient mobility and health care developments in the European Union, which included Health Ministers and their personal representatives, as well as representatives of patients, health professionals, health insurers, and the European Parliament; the Communication from the Commission of 20 April 2004 on the follow-up to the high level reflection process on patient mobility and ...[+++] health care developments in the European Union. the Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions of 20 April 2004 on modernising social protection for the development of high-quality, accessible and sustainable health care and long-term care: support for the national strategies using the "open method of co-ordination"; and the Note from the Commission to the Economic Policy Committee of 16 March 2004 on controlling health care expenditures: some recent experiences with reform.