Eurohealth: perspectives on the Professional Qualifications Directive

Abstract

This issue of Eurohealth provides perspectives from different stakeholders – the regulator perspective, and the physician and nurse perspectives – on the June 2011 Green Paper from the European Commission on Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications. The rest of this issue includes Eurohealth International – Health care fraud and corruption in Europe: overview, Cross-border shopping for medicines in Belgium and the Netherlands, Combating health care fraud in Scotland, Monitoring provider fraud in Norway; Eurohealth Systems and Policies – Statistics for out-of-pocket spending in the former Soviet Union countries, Pay-for-performance does not always “pay”; Eurohealth Monitor – new publications, news.