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Postgraduate Course: European Health Care Law (LAWS11256)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Law CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis module covers areas of European law applicable to health care, and health systems and health policy.
While the EU has no formal power to develop its own health care law, it does have competence to carry out actions to support, coordinate or supplement national actions in, inter alia, the health field. But in order that students properly understand that, the course will begin by looking at important milestones in the history of the EU, and those provisions in the Treaty of Lisbon applicable to health. EU structures and bodies will also be introduced and explained at the start of the module.
Armed with this foundation understanding, and having considered the relationship between EU health initiatives and Member State health policies, students should be able to better address specific areas of EU law applicable to health. They will also be able to consider and debate the following areas:
1. The relationship between law, politics and public health policies
2. The EU health care law matrix of super-state, state and sub-state agencies
3. EU preventive and incentive measures

Through the course, a number of specific issues will be addressed, including:
1. Organ donation and the competences (and limits) of EU actions
2. Tobacco regulation affecting trade, justified on the ground of the 'health' derogation.
3. Detection and control of communicable diseases: an incentive-driven preventive health measure
4. The Cross Border Health Care and Patients Rights directives and whether they will do more than codify existing EU law as it applies to free movement of persons in the health care context.
5. The Consumer Protection and Data Protection directives and whether they are fit for health care purposes
At relevant points in the module, we will look at cross-border issues in specific Member States or regions. This will be facilitated by discussion of scenarios that will have been contributed by colleagues connected to the European Association of Health Law.

Course description 1: Introduction to EU law and health care
2: The EU health care law matrix: institutions, health policy and Member State health systems governance
3: Economic and other drivers designed to shape national health policies
4: The internal market, competition law and free movement of goods
5: Health care delivery and free movement of goods and services 1
6: Health care delivery and free movement of services 2
7: Rights and regulation of health professionals and EU social & employment law
8: Free movement of patients I
9: Free movement of patients II
10: Free movement of patients III: the effects
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements Please contact the distance learning team at escript.support@ed.ac.uk
Additional Costs Students should have regular and reliable access to the Internet. Print consumables recommended to provide hard copy of some materials.
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesPlease contact the distance learning team at escript.support@ed.ac.uk
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 40, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 156 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) One essay of up to 4,000 words (60%); one individual assignment (20%); contribution to weekly online discussions throughout the semester (20%). Requirements for all module assessment will be outlined to students within the individual modules at the start of each semester.
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of the specific areas of EU law applicable to health;
2. Articulate and constructively comment upon the inter-relationships; between law, politics and economics in the development and implementation of public health policies
3. Give a critical account of the EU health care law matrix of super-state, state and sub-state agencies;
4. Evaluate the impact of EU preventive and incentive measures;
5. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of topical issues in health; care law generally, and of specific contexts and developments in different member states
6. Apply advanced research, analysis and writing skills in the specialist field of European health care law.


Reading List
None
Additional Information
Course URL http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/teaching/online_distance_learning/llm_degrees/llm_in_law/modules/european_health_care_law
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Special Arrangements This course is taught by distance learning.
Additional Class Delivery Information This course is taught by distance learning.
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMr Gerard Porter
Tel: (0131 6)50 2023
Email: Gerard.Porter@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr Douglas Thompson
Tel: (0131 6)50 2022
Email: D.Thompson@ed.ac.uk
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