Luxembourg Country report

Luxembourg Country report

Three major topics are under discussion for the moment:

* Reform medical fees structure has been delayed until the next government (after 2014 elections)

> Time billing system

> Separation medical fees and medical technical expenses

> Modern hierarchy and denominations (nomenclature)

* Patient’s right law

> Right of information

* Language barriers

* Cognitive barriers

> Reversal  proof of information

* Definition good information

* Adverse effects 1/100, 1/1000, 1/10000 etc.

* Definition proof information

* Time

* Adequate setting

* Pedagogical means

> Right to be ignored

* How to balance this patient right with elemental professional rights?

* Compensation of medical accidents

> -1 Foreseeable and avoidable accidents

* Professional responsibility

* Obligation professional insurance coverage

* Scope professional insurance coverage

* Time out liability and claims

* Obligation companies to insure professionals

> -2 Foreseeable and unavoidable accidents

* Patients information

> -3 Unforeseeable and unavoidable accidents

* No fault compensation system

N.B.: In Luxembourg nosocomial infections have been assimilated to security guarantee of result (jurisprudence 2013)

Dr Claude Schummer