Brussels offers NHS patients Europe-wide treatment - The Times 3rd July 2008

Patients will be able to demand NHS-funded treatment anywhere in the European Union without the prior approval of a doctor under wide-ranging proposals to guarantee health rights announced yesterday. Under the EU scheme, patients would be able to beat NHS queues or avoid problems such as high superbug rates by shopping around for care abroad. They would then be eligible to recoup the NHS cost of the procedure.

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