Overview

This issue of Eurohealth starts with an overview that examines the complex reasons why cross-border care is needed and the driving factors that have underpinned the eventual passage of the new EU Directive on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border health care.

Contents includes:

• Cross-border health care collaboration in the EU
• Processes and regulatory procedures of doctors
• Disease management across borders
• The role of discharge summaries
• Cross-border recognition of medicines prescriptions
• What information do patients want when choosing a hospital?
• Intra-European retirement migrants access to care
• Risk communication for cross-border health threats
• Hospitals and borders
• Cross-border potential of telemedicine solutions
• Cross-border dental care (Austria, Hungary)
• Common rules on medicine prescriptions
• European public health strategies
• Promoting oral health
• Reducing waste in health and long-term care (Netherlands)
• Chronic care system in Spain
• Scaling-up e-Health in Catalonia
• Migrants’ dental health services in Cyprus