Cross-border healthcare and recognition of medical prescriptions issued in another Member State

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Bombillar Sáenz, Francisco Miguel

Affiliations: University of Granada, Granada, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract: This paper defends that it is necessary to regulate the cross-border healthcare in the European Union, and, specifically, the recognition of medical prescriptions issued in other Member States. And this, obviously, without neglecting the Public Health protection, verifying the authenticity of the medical prescriptions, whether they were issued by a qualified professional legally entitled to do so or facilitating the correct identification of medicinal products or medical devices prescribed on them; avoiding any restriction to their recognition, unless their purpose is to protect the Public Health, based in legitimate and justified doubts on the authenticity, content or intelligibility of a certain medical prescription or due to ethical reasons for the dispensing pharmacist.

Keywords: European Union, cross-border healthcare, medical prescription, recognition

DOI: 10.3233/PPL-170445

Journal: Pharmaceuticals Policy and Law, vol. 19, no. 1-2, pp. 47-61, 2017