Traduction de «In-and-out surgery » (Anglais → Français) :

23. Points out that, as regards hospital services in another Member State, the procedure for granting authorisation must provide a guarantee for patients protecting them from arbitrary decisions taken by their national authorities; points out that, in order to facilitate the free movement of patients without prejudicing Member States" planning objectives, in the light of the case law of the Court of Justice, hospital treatment should be defined narrowly as treatment which can only be provided within hospital infrastructure and may not be provided, for example, in a practitioner's surgery or at the patient's home; points out, in particu ...[+++]lar, that any refusal to grant an authorisation must be open to challenge in judicial and quasi-judicial proceedings and that, for the purpose of assessing the medical situation of each patient, entirely objective and impartial advice from independent experts should be sought;

This designation is not acceptable: plastic surgery consists of far more than cosmetic surgery, no recognised qualification in cosmetic surgery exists in Europe, and this attitude will effectively legalise the practice of cosmetic surgery by unqualified persons calling themselves 'specialists in cosmetic surgery', thus endangering those who resort to their services believing them to be properly trained and qualified.

Furthermore, hip, knee and shoulder replacement surgery is increasingly taking place on young people with a high life expectancy; consequently, the need for such implants to function properly over the life expectancy of the patients and to reduce revision surgery and its risks has been increased.

It should be pointed out that Council Directive 89/594/EEC, on the basis of which Greece recognised the specialisation of orthodontics (see Article 14) up to the year 2000 made no reference to jaw surgery as a specialisation identical to oral surgery.

The speciality of (gnathology) jaw surgery is a separate discipline in Greece and is not identical to oral surgery, given that the former requires, inter alia, a compulsory second diploma, in dentistry and medicine, and requires a longer period of training in this discipline at recognised hospitals (4 years) and in general surgery, two preconditions not required by the latter.

11. Considers that priority should be given to making available the resources needed for the training of qualified nurses in the following fields: geriatrics, oncology, first aid, transplants, heart surgery, nephrology and psychiatry, in order to make young people more interested in taking short degree courses in nursing and to provide qualifications and incentives in specialised areas in which work is more demanding both intellectually and psychologically (‘burn-out’ in the case of oncology and stress in the case of transplant surgery).