Health Care and EU Law

Introduction

Part I: Foundations

EU Health Care Law in a Constitutional Light: Distribution of Competences, Notions of 'Solidarity', and 'Social Europe'

Discrimination and Beyond

Part II: The (Draft) Patients' Rights Directive and Internal Market Issues

The Case Law of the European Court of Justice on the Mobility of Patients: A Defence

Patients' Rights: A Lost Cause or Missed Opportunity?

The Draft Patient Mobility Directive and the Co-ordination Regulations of Social Security

Cooperation between Health Care Authorities in the Proposed Directive on Patients' Rights in Cross-border Health Care

Legislating For Patients' Rights

Disrupting the Community - Saving Public Health Ethics from the EU Internal Market

Health Care, the United Kingdom and the Draft Patients' Rights Directive: One Small Step for Patient Mobility but a Huge Leap for a Reformed NHS?

Part III: Competition Law and Health Care Issues

The Treaty Provisions on Competition and Health Care

BUPA; a Healthy Case, in the Light of a Changing Constitutional Setting in Europe?

EU Law and the Organisation of Health Care: Experiences from Germany

Experiences from the Netherlands: The Application of Competition Rules in Health Care

Part IV: Further issues of EU Health Care Law

Health Care Planning and the EU Internal Market Law

Public Procurement Law and Health Care: From Theory to Practice

Patient Mobility beyond Calais: Health Services under WTO law

Part V: Conclusion

Conclusions: Constructing a 'Solid' Multi-Layered Health Care Edifice

Table of Cases