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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10155
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/health council

EU27 agree on patient cross-border healthcare rights

Brussels, 08/06/2010 (Agence Europe) - In Luxembourg on Tuesday 8 June, the European Union's member states' health ministers agreed in principle on an EU directive on patient rights to healthcare in other countries. The agreement applies to all Europeans and reinforces the European healthcare area. Submitted by the Spanish Presidency of the EU, the new directive regulates patient mobility and should not cost national healthcare systems too much. The Spanish Presidency's proposals were backed...

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