McHale Jean V
University of Birmingham, UK.
Br J Nurs. 2011;20(7):442-4. doi: 10.12968/bjon.2011.20.7.442.
On 9th March 2011 the new EU Directive on Patients' Rights in Cross-border Healthcare was adopted. This article explores its implications for the delivery of health care in the UK. It notes that the final version of the Directive provides much greater discretion to member states to control access to resources than was suggested in early drafts of the Directive. It explores the situations in which care can be subject to prior authorization and suggests that perhaps the greatest long-term impact of the Directive will not be in patient mobility as such but rather in relation to its impact on broader standard setting across the EU.
2011年3月9日，欧盟关于跨境医疗保健患者权利的新指令获得通过。本文探讨了该指令对英国医疗保健服务提供的影响。文章指出，指令的最终版本赋予成员国更大的自由裁量权，以控制资源的获取，这比指令初稿中所建议的要大得多。本文探讨了医疗保健可能需要事先授权的情况，并表明该指令最大的长期影响可能不在于患者的流动本身，而在于其对整个欧盟更广泛的标准制定的影响。
