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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11602

28 July 2016
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) health
ESIP sounds alarm about health service standardisation

Brussels, 27/07/2016 (Agence Europe) - Similarly to certain health ministers, the European Social Insurance Platform (ESIP) is also opposed to elaborating health service standardisation. In a position made on 14 July, it urged the Commission and the European standardisation committee to halt its work in this connection.

The platform considers that “the market oriented approach involving European standardisation is not appropriate for the services provided by social security systems....