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"Mr President, the most important thing is for patients to receive good, safe and cheap care, and more often than not they want to receive their care as close to home as possible. In other words, national healthcare services need to be delivered appropriately.
The Commission’s proposal before us should nevertheless be welcomed. It is important that care and treatment can also be available in another country. That would ensure more freedom of choice and that there were clearer guidelines and advice, whilst health and safety issues also become clearer. For patients, then, this would be a good thing.
For the Member States the issue is slightly more complicated, because the directive cannot work well until the electronic social welfare and healthcare systems in the Member States of the Union are compatible. We know that they are not today, and the implementation of this directive would demand a lot from the Member States. We need to ensure that when the directive has been adopted it also means that patient’s details can pass from one system to another, information security is guaranteed and the patient’s safety is assured. The patient is what is most important."@en1
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