EU court backs British granny on health care costs

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...