Published 4 July 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a682
Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a682
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GMC calls for greater safeguards when doctors and patients move across EU borders
Clare Dyer
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A new draft directive from the European Commission giving patients the right to access treatment in other European Union member states (BMJ 2008;337:a676, 3 Jul, doi: 10.1136/bmj.a676) must be accompanied by greater safeguards for patients, the General Medical Council says.
The GMC, the regulatory body for doctors in the United Kingdom, is calling for firmer legal duties on regulators across the European Union to share information, test doctor’s language competence, and create mechanisms to ensure that doctors’ performance and competence are acceptable.
It said that the draft directive on patients’ rights in cross border health care "potentially represents a significant change in access to and delivery of healthcare across Europe" and urged the European Commission "to recognise that, as well as having a right to receive healthcare anywhere in the EU, patients have an equal right to be confident that they will be treated by safe doctors who
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