EU member states' national health services must pay the bill for patients who travel abroad for treatment when faced with "undue delay" in their home countries, a top EU court has ruled.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) passed a landmark verdict on Tuesday (16 May) in a case which may have serious cost implications for member states with already strained health services and which does little to define "undue delay."
Seventy-five year-old British grandmother Yvonne Watts, suffe...
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