Croatian Association for the promotion of the Patients' Rights

Patients' Rights

The Association is founded with the purpose of acting for the common good through the promotion and protection of human rights of users of healthcare services - patients, ie for the purpose of achieving the following goals: • preventing discrimination against patients on any basis; • informing the public about the patients' rights and how they are used in our country and in the world; • providing assistance to citizens in the exercise of their rights as patients; • collecting individual observations about the poorly defined relationships between those who provide, those who provide, those who provide, and those who seek health care; • adopting proposals for legal presumptions that would determine patients' rights, in accordance with the positive regulations of the Republic of Croatia. • promoting the value of diplomatic relations in the field of health: representation and representation of the state; and promoting friendly relations with countries and international organi (...)

Lobbying Activity

Response to Evaluation of patient rights in cross-border healthcare

31 Jan 2021

Cross-border healthcare is a fundamental right of every EU citizen that has the right to access healthcare in any EU country and to be reimbursed for care abroad by their home country. In clinical settings, this is not appropriate and many countries search for the obstacles to provide reimbursement to the patients. We need a unique health ID for all Europe, and strictly protocols about providing full health care in the country of the patient choice, especially we need to stress the fact that many countries have a waiting list for the MRI, and other diagnostic procedures more than 2 years what doesn't present a waiting list, just present unavailable access to the healthcare , and following this many patients were forced to search help on the court of justice and sue their state member. The cross border health care should assure that every patient chooses any European clinic for diagnostic and treatment, and the Commission directive should ban restrictions from the national health insurance, as now we have a situation that some countries have restricted treatments in other EU countries or ask a special approval before what also present waste of patient time and Commission must not allow that procedure. Cross- border healthcare need to be unique without any discrimination from the countries to which we now witness. One unique health ID card and the right to choose any EU country for the cure! M.Sc. Jasna Karačić, Ph.D. researcher University of Split School of Medicine - Split, Croatia The Croatian Association for the patient's rights info@patientombudsman.eu https://patientombudsman.eu/
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