NHS To Pay for Foreign Health

NHS To Pay for Foreign Health Care
R (Watts) v Bedford Primary Care Trust and another (Case C-372/04)
ECJ
16 May 2006
Daily Law Notes Report Summary
ECJ Judgment
Art 49 EC on freedom to provide services in principle entitled a
resident of an EC member state with a free national health service
to be reimbursed for hospital treatment in another member state
which had or should have been authorised by the resident state's
health service; a decision on such authorisation had to be based
on the patient's state of health, and a refusal could not be based
on the existence of waiting lists alone.