Health European issues
- EU cross border healthcare - Which? Response (PDF: 94Kb)
05 December 2008Which? reported that consumers support prior authorisation and prefer treatment close to home. They want and need comprehensive information before deciding to have treatment abroad, and would prefer to seek redress in the UK.
- Provision of information to patients (EC) - Which? Joint letter (PDF: 128Kb)
10 September 2008Along with eight high profile organisations, Which? wrote to the European Commission to express concern about plans to let pharmaceutical companies provide information on prescription medicines directly to consumers.
- Legal proposals on information to patients (EC) - Which? Response (PDF: 54Kb)
07 April 2008Which? urged the Commission to adopt a consumer-centred approach to the problems of lack of harmonisation and unequal access to medicines, and produce a strategy regarding information about medicines before making specific legislative proposals.
- European cross border healthcare - Which? Response (PDF: 587Kb)
02 February 2007Which? supported the principle of access to cross border treatment, provided it does not undermine Members States’ provision of quality healthcare to their citizens. We did not see a likelihood of significant cross border patient mobility from the UK.
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