In this section you will find the content of the conference presentations.

Conference Press Release 

List of Participants 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Conference Opening Session and Welcome

• Overview on Europe for Patients  by Martin McKee, LSHTM
  
  

Session I: Patient Mobility – The Evidence

Chair: Tit Albreht IVZ, Slovenia

• Conceptual framework of patient mobility: typology; push/pull factors, impact  by Rita Baeten, OSE

• Evidence from the Case Studies  by Maria Lluch, IESE

• Cost Difference as a Driver for Patient Mobility  by Ain Aaviskso, Praxis
  
  

 Session II: A Legal Framework for Patient Mobility

Chair: Jerome Vignon, Director European Commission, DG Employment and Social Affairs

• European law related to patient mobility & national implementation  by Michael Coucheir, Ghent University

• Legal options for improving legal certainty on patient mobility  by Yves Jorens, Ghent University

• Health systems and the internal market: wider legal context  by Willy Palm, European Observatory

• Reflections  by Jean-Philippe Lhernould, University of Orleans, France
  
  

Session III: The Patient Perspective

Chair: Martin McKee, LSHTM

• Patients motives and needs, what do we know?  by Irene Glinos, OSE

• Ensuring quality of cross border care  by Helena Legido Quigley, LSHTM

• Practical arrangements: information, communication, continuity  by Magdalene Rosenmöller, IESE
  
  

Round Table: Building a New Framework for EU Cross-Border Care

Chair: Hans Stein, former Director, International Affairs, German Ministry of Health

• Regional Local Stakeholders  by Luigi Bertinato, Veneto Region
  
  

Session V: Financing and Contracting Issues

Chair: Willy Palm, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

• Financing and cross border contracting issues  by Sherry Merkur, LSE

• Cross-border contracting in practice  by Irene Glinos, OSE