Legal safeguards against medical practice by not suitably qualified persons: A comparative study in seven EU-countries

European Journal of Health Law

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 5-18

  De Bijl, Nicole ^a   Nederveen van De Kragt, Ine ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Access to medical practice; Alternative medicine; Legal aspects; Patient protection; Regulatory systems; Unqualified medical practice

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; BELGIUM; DENMARK; EUROPEAN UNION; FRANCE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IRELAND; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NETHERLANDS; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0030959507     PISSN: 09290273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/15718099720521841     Document Type: Article

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1. EC Directive 75/362, OJ L 167, EC Directive 73/363, OJ L 43/21 and EC Directive 86/457, OJ L 267.
2. The reserved procedures are: surgical and obstetric aid, catheterisations and endoscopies, punctures and injections, anaesthesia, procedures involving the use of radioactive substances and ionising radiation, cardioversion, defribillation, electroconvulsive therapy, lithotripsis, artificial insemination.
3. In Belgium by the Practice of Medicine Act of 1967, in Denmark by the Practice of Medicine Act of 1970, in Germany by the 'Approbationsordnung für Arzte of 1970, in France by the Act of Public Health, the 'Règlement de qualification' and the 'Guide d'Exercice Professionel', in Ireland by the Medical Practitioners Act of 1978, in the Netherlands by the Practice of Medicine Act of 1865 and in future by the Individual Health Care Professionals Act of 1993 and in the United Kingdom by the Medical Act of 1983.
4. Registration implies entering a register.
5. Authorization implies permission/licensing by a competent body.
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7. Article 7 paragraph 1 Practice of Medicine Act 1967.
8. Articles 3 to 6 and 18 to 19 of the Individual Health Care Professions Act 1993
9. Article 2(3) of the Danish Order of 1970.
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19. See note 10.
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22. See note 19.
23. See note 10, p. 295.
24. Article 3 of the Danish Order of 1970.
25. Article 36 sub 14 Individual Health Care Professions Act 1993.
26. Order no. 426 issued by the Minister of the Interior on 19 August, 1976. By this Order the Practice of Medicine Act is published, confer Order No. 197 of 14 May, 1970, article 25, with the amendments resulting form Act No. 275 of 26 May, 1976.
27. Article 14 (3) of the Order concerning the Practice of Medicine Act of 1970.
28. Articles 46 to 58 of the Medical Act 1983.
29. Medicines Act 1968.
30. Leenen, H.J.J. en H.D.C. Roscam Abbing, Bestuurlijk gezondheidsrecht, Samsom H.D. Tjeenk Willink, Alphen aan den Rijn/Brussel, 1986, p. 64 and further.
31. A guide to the registration requirements for doctors of the European Communities and information concerning access to medical practice in the social security systems, European Union of General Practitioners, July 1985, p. 57.
32. Medical Act 1983, Par VI Privileges of registered practitioners, section 49.
33. Medical Practitioners Act 1978, Part V Fitness to practise, section 61: the fine shall not exceed five hundred pounds, the impriosnment shall not exceed twelve months.
34. Medical Practitioners Act 1978, Part V Fitness to practise, section 61.
35. Paragraph 132 Strafgesetzbuch.
36. Article 26 of the Order concerning the Practice of Medicine Act.
37. Article 23 of the Order concerning the Practice of Medicine Act 1970
38. Sanctions in the Netherlands are detention, a fine or debarment from the profession (articles 96 to 103 of the Individual Health Care Professions Act).
39. Articles 24 to 27 of the Order concerning the Practice of Medicine Act 1970.
40. Article 97 of the Individual Health Care Professions Act
41. Projet de rapport de la commission de l'environnement, de la santé et de la protection des consommateurs sur le statut des medicines complémentaires, Rapporteur: M. Paul Lannoye, 25 février 1994.