Introduction

Reflecting on ‘Supporting health systems in Europe: added value of EU actions?’

“…There is general agreement that EU health policy includes mobility of patients and health care professionals, and the consequences of EU free movement and competition law for national health care systems (Mossialos et al, 2002; Hervey and McHale, 2004; Nihoul and Simon, 2005; Thomson et al, 2009; Mossialos et al, 2010; Van de Gronden et al, 2011; Hancher and Sauter, 2012; Greer and Kurzer, 2013; Hervey and McHale, 2015). A small, but growing, body of literature (Jarman, 2013, 2014; Hervey and McHale, 2015) is concerned with the external effects of the EU’s health policy – how does mobility into and out of the EU of people and products related to health play out in the rest of the world?…”

Telemedicine: The legal framework (or the lack of it) in Europe

“…The EU has been enlarging its competences in this domain with both the European treaties’ successive revisions and the contributions of the Court of Justice [64], so nowadays many health issues are under the competences shared by the EU and the Member States. Many questions entered the EU jurisdiction competence scope because medical treatments were qualified as services according to Article 56 of TFEU.…”

How Bureaucracies Listen to Courts: Bureaucratized Calculations and European Law

“…EU health care services law is now the subject of an extensive literature and several recent book‐length reviews (Mossialos et al 2010; Van De Gronden et al 2011). It began in 1998 with the ECJ decisions that ruled that health care services were services under EU law.…”