Obtaining health care in another European Union Member State: how easy is it to find relevant information?
Santoro, Alessio;
Silenzi, Andrea;
Ricciardi, Walter;
McKee, Martin;
(2014)
Obtaining health care in another European Union Member State: how easy is it to find relevant information?
European journal of public health, 25 (1).
pp. 29-31.
ISSN 1101-1262
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/cku124
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The European Union Directive on cross-border health care places an obligation on member states (MSs) to establish one or more national contact points (NCPs). We evaluated whether MSs were meeting their legal obligations. Two researchers created a set of criteria, drawn from the Directive, to evaluate the information that 18 MSs provide on their NCP websites. Some 15 of the 18 MSs evaluated provided >75% of the information sought. This report shows examples of best practices that could be used to encourage other MSs to improve the quality and quantity of information provided.
