title: Competitive health care in europe Competitive health care in europe Casparie A Hermans H Paelinck J editors Dartmouth Publishing Co 320pp £35 1-85521-186-6 [Formula: see text].
abstract: The United Kingdom has been a member of the EEC since 1972. The first EEC Nursing Directives were published in 1977, and, yet, in the intervening years since those historic events, there has been relatively little in-depth analysis of the real issues affecting health care in the now EC outside the working documents of the European Commission or Parliament.