Postgraduate Course: European Healthcare Law (LAWS11316)
Course Outline
| School | School of Law |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This 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.
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| 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 and free movement of goods 1
5: The internal market, competition law and free movement
6: Health care delivery and free movement of goods
7: Health care delivery and free movement of services
8: Rights and regulation of health professionals and EU social & employment law
9: Free movement of patients 1
10: Free movement of patients 2
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | Please contact the distance learning team at escript.support@ed.ac.uk |
Course Delivery Information
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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.
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Gerard Porter
Tel: (0131 6)50 2023
Email: Gerard.Porter@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Douglas Thompson
Tel: (0131 6)50 2022
Email: D.Thompson@ed.ac.uk |
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