Referral for further care

submission of medical, detention and removal accounts

follow-me call forwarding | follow-me forwarding | follow-me service

reference to another court

change of venue

Any instance of care ordered by or provided by someone impersonating a physician, nurse, pharmacist, or other licensed healthcare provider

Maternal care for other conditions predominantly related to pregnancy

Canada Health Care, Early Childhood Development and Other Social Services Funding Act [ An Act respecting the provision of increased funding for health care services, medical equipment, health information and communications technologies, early childhood development and other social services and to amend the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangem ]

1. Recalls that the EU pharmaceutical legislation was put in place to protect patient safety; recalls its above-mentioned resolution of 22 October 2013 on the report from the Commission to the Council on the basis of Member States’ reports on the implementation on the Council Recommendation (2009/C 151/01) on patient safety, including the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections;

AA. whereas many jobs in the healthcare and care sector in some Member States are still poorly paid, often not offering formal contracts and other basic labour rights and have low attractiveness because of the high risk of physical and emotional stress, the threat of burnout, and a lack of career development opportunities; whereas the sector offers little training and, moreover, its employees are predominantly ageing people, women and migrant workers; whereas care in the EU is often provided by informal unpaid carers, who themselves can be considered a vulnerable group due to increasing pressures to provide more sophisticated and techn ...[+++]ical levels of care; whereas a number of Member States lack a quality care service that is available to all regardless of income;

Namely, where the state of health of a worker affiliated to the Portuguese health system gives rise to the need for medical services in the course of a stay in the territory of another Member State (unforeseen treatment) or where the worker has received prior authorisation from the competent institution to go to the territory of another Member State to receive treatment there, the reimbursement rates being those applicable in the Member State where treatment is received (planned care authorised in advance).

Secondly, the Court examines the situation relating to other forms of medical care, that is to say, non-hospital care provided in another Member State, other than the care covered by the Portuguese Decree-Law, not involving the use of major and costly equipment and not covered by Regulation No 1408/71.