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Mr President, I wish to thank the honourable Members for this very interesting debate. It was also very useful for me to see how we can take this work further.
Centres of reference are very important and are included in the report. In 2006 there will be at least a pilot project. However, we also encourage them within Member States, because they is needed there as well.
Patient safety is important. The Luxembourg presidency and the UK presidency are giving it priority. I hope that by the end of the UK presidency we will have some more concrete conclusions on that.
The use of information technology for facilitating payments, records and so on and the use of e-Health information technology have been mentioned.
Patients’ rights are important. I am proud to say that the country I know best has already adopted legislation in this respect. It is a question of subsidiarity, but we will encourage the Member States to adopt some kind of charter of patients’ rights, which may or may not be binding depending on the legal system of each Member State.
Finally, another project which is important and which we will finance through the new health programme – provided it survives the Financial Perspectives debate – will be the financing of a new strand in health cooperation between Member States. This will provide vital resources at European level to turn the discussions on cooperation into practical reality, including the other information and the centres of reference mentioned earlier.
In conclusion, I apologise again for taking so much time, but I wish to thank everybody for this debate. I will keep Parliament informed on the progress of the High Level Group.
Let me begin by reassuring Mrs Doyle that I share her concern about the urgency of this whole issue. I am really concerned about every single aspect of this complex issue which we call patient mobility, because it is not just about moving patients from one country to another. Members have mentioned the problems with professional mobility and the burden on healthcare systems. But we cannot do everything at once. One complication is that most of this lies within the competence of the Member States. The processes in the Union are rather slower than in the Member States, but when it comes to coordination or whatever method we choose, it takes even longer.
Nevertheless, I shall tell you what I plan to do in the near future. Everything has to be done, but it is a matter of choosing priorities. Some things are easier or more urgent. The first one you have all mentioned: legal certainty. This has to be dealt with. I will not take a position on the Services Directive. I am waiting for the conclusion of the discussions. I can assure you that if eventually it is decided not to include health in the Services Directive - I am speaking hypothetically here - we will bring forward a different proposal.
As soon as you decide what to do with the Services Directive!
It is not final yet, but let me put it like this: no time will be wasted. That is the first priority.
We will have our health portal by the end of the year. This is moving forward, as you know, the provision of information about access to healthcare is more an issue for the Member States, but we shall, nevertheless, include it in our health portal.
I will speed up the progress of the High Level Group, so that they can deal with the various issues they are working on. I shall give priority to a health programme for the gathering of data information, because it seems that this might not be progressing as well as we think, but because of faults in the system we are not receiving the right information. So it might be progressing better than we think. So I shall give priority to gathering data information."@en1
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