Sasko Presents Areas of Proposals for Measures to Improve Health Care

Trnava, November 12 (TASR) - Health Minister Kamil Sasko (Voice-SD) presented to the representatives of the health-care sector in Trnava region proposals for more than 30 specific measures to improve the Slovak health sector in six areas, TASR learnt from the minister on Tuesday after his meeting in Trnava. The main topics of the meeting were, for example, the staffing situation in the regions, the need to train health professionals and the availability of health care. Sasko outlined the proposed measures. "The first area is the standardisation of payments for medical services. The second one is the optimisation of costs for health-care providers, the third area is the standardisation of the conditions of health-care provision, the fourth one is the financing of the system, the fifth is the reduction of the administrative burden and digitisation. And the last one, and today's discussion, by the way, has also confirmed this absolutely unequivocally, is the management of human resources across the sector," added the minister. The aim of the measures, according to him, is and must be the patient in each region. He stated that the staffing situation in the regions was the central topic of the meeting. The minister stated that communication with the regions is important for improving health care. On Tuesday, he started a series of meetings with representatives of self-governing regions, where he presents proposals for solutions. "I'll also visit Trencin and Nitra this week, and in the next three weeks I'll visit all eight self-governing regions in Slovakia," he added. am/mcs