This section includes news, events, publications and related documents to cross-border care.
Publications and related documents
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Cross-border health care in Europe (pdf)
In this policy summary, Katharine Footman, Cécile Knai, Rita Baeten, Ketevan Glonti, and Martin McKee provide a review of the current state of issues relating to cross-border health care in Europe. It combines a literature search with evidence gathered by the Evaluating Care Across Borders (European Union Cross Border Care Collaboration) Project to provide an update on the 2005 ‘Policy Brief on Cross-Border Health Care in the European Union’.
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Public reporting in health and long-term care to facilitate provider choice (pdf)
In this policy summary, Stephanie Kumpunen, Lisa Trigg, and Ricardo Rodrigues review the literature on the measurement and reporting of quality information to aid the public in choosing health and long-term care providers, provide insights to support future investment in public reporting systems, and summarize strategies aiming to increase the use of reporting by patients and users.
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May 2009
LSE Health awarded €4.5 million research grant
The European Commission's Research Directorate has awarded Professor Mossialos, director of LSE Health, a €4.5 million research grant to develop methodologies and indicators for assessing health system efficiency and quality. This represents the second largest research grant ever awarded to LSE by the Commission and the largest so far from the 7th Framework Programme.
This programme is co-funded by the EU through the FP7 Cooperation Work Programme: Health (contract number 242058; contract acronym EUCBCC)
2010-2013 EUCBCC consortium