Seanad to debate Cross-Border Healthcare Directive
The Seanad Special Select Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union will meet this afternoon to discuss the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive. The meeting of Senators will hold two sessions to examine the impact of Brexit on the Directive. The first session will hear…
‘Significant’ increase in patients travelling to the North for operations
A private hospital in Belfast is seeing more and more patients coming from the Republic as part of the Cross Border Healthcare Directive. The scheme allows people to get an operation in another EU member state and be reimbursed by the HSE. The National Association of General Practitioners has confirmed it…