In the first half of 2024, the National Health Service of Ukraine (NHSU) will conduct scheduled monitoring of 63 contracted healthcare facilities.
According to the agency on its website, the list of medical institutions to be monitored was determined based on the results of calculating a system of indicators that can confirm or refute the existence of risks in the work of clinics.
The monitoring will be conducted in medical facilities contracted under the packages “Medical Care for Acute Cerebral Stroke”, “Medical Care for Acute Myocardial Infarction”, “Medical Care during Childbirth”, and “Medical Care for Newborns in Complicated Neonatal Cases”.
In particular, the monitoring will be conducted in 16 clinics contracted for the acute cerebral stroke package, 11 clinics contracted for the acute myocardial infarction package, 28 medical institutions contracted for the maternity care package, and eight clinics contracted for the neonatal care package.
In addition, the NHSU informs that the list of medical institutions to be monitored will be supplemented by institutions that have a rehabilitation contract.
Since the beginning of 2023, the National Health Service of Ukraine (NHSU) has paid over UAH 2.22 billion to medical institutions for medical care in case of acute cerebral stroke and acute myocardial infarction.
According to the NHSU press service, since the beginning of 2023, more than 78.8 thousand patients have received medical care for acute cerebral stroke and more than 21 thousand patients for acute myocardial infarction under the Medical Guarantee Program (MGP).
In addition, the NHSU reminds that 232 brand names of medicines for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases and primary and secondary prevention of heart attacks and strokes are currently participating in the Affordable Medicines reimbursement program.
More than 13.6 thousand private and municipal pharmacies have agreements with the NHSU to participate in the reimbursement program.
229 medical institutions have contracts with the NHSU for the treatment of acute cerebral stroke, and 74 institutions have contracts for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction. In particular, during stroke treatment, a medical facility receives UAH 131,472 for endovascular interventions, UAH 62,565 for thrombolytic therapy, and UAH 14,952 for care without endovascular interventions or thrombolytic therapy.
For the treatment of a heart attack with stenting, a healthcare facility receives UAH 43,573; if stenting is not performed, the NHSU pays UAH 25,261 for medical care provided during a heart attack.
The Ministry of Health of Ukraine in October expanded the network of medical facilities to provide medical care to patients with COVID-19 to 422.
“As of yesterday, the network of medical institutions for providing medical care to patients with COVID-19 has been expanded to 422 medical institutions,” deputy head of the National Health Service of Ukraine (NHSU) Anna Fenchak said at a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday.
She said that by the end of October, the NHSU will conclude contracts with all the medical institutions that will meet the requirements of the National Service, in particular, regarding the provision of oxygen and the availability of the required number of doctors.
“The NHSU concludes contracts with all medical institutions that meet the requirements. They will be signed by the end of October, payment for actually rendered medical services will be made in early November,” Fenchak said.
About 1,000 medical institutions have been registered in the eHealth system, Deputy Minister of Health Pavlo Kovtoniuk has said.
“There is already a lot of health institutions registered in the system. On March 28 there are 928 health facilities,” he said at a briefing in Kyiv.
According to the Ministry of Health, at present there are 1,232 medical institutions of primary level in Ukraine without taking into account ambulatory clinics.
Kovtoniuk also said that all medical institutions of primary care in Kyiv are ready to sign declarations with patients.
“Yesterday we held a meeting with Kyiv medical institutions, all of them declare their readiness to sign declarations from the first week of April,” he said.
At the same time, the deputy minister of health noted that “it is important not to rush” for the Ministry of Health.
“The main thing is not the speed, but the quality of selecting the doctor. We tell institutions that they must be qualitatively ready to accept declarations. The process of choosing a doctor begins on April 2 and does not end, so we do not need to run and queue, but we do not recommend postponing the signing of the declaration,” he said.
