Ten years of the single market: EU healthcare still awaits harmonisation
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The EU Single Market was launched in 1992, but healthcare financing remains a national or even regional issue, leading to inequitable patient and clinician access to medical technology. This is one of the many hurdles placed before industry - along with constraints on healthcare budgets, the pharma and devices legislation reviews, the attractiveness of the EU to foreign investment and the enlargement of the EU in 2004, says Eucomed director general Maurice Wagner