Patient Mobility in the European Union: A Freedom to Choose?

Abstract

From introduction: "A fundamental freedom to receive cross border medical treatment is granted to citizens of the European Union under the internal market provisions of European Community Law. The European Court of Justice has interpreted the extent of, and the limits to, this freedom in a series of rulings, the most recent and controversial being the ruling delivered in the case of Yvonne Watts v Bedford Primary Care Trust, in May 2006."(...)