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Upgrading the strategic framework of the healthcare sector

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The objective of the reform is to increase the resilience of the health system to shocks, as well as to increase the population’s access to high-quality and timely healthcare by providing the strategic underpinning of future investments and reforms and identifying relevant actions.

The reform includes the adoption of a number of strategies and action plans with specific measures, such as:

  • National Strategy for Mental Health of the Citizens of the Republic of Bulgaria 2021-2030 and of its action plan (adopted in November 2021);
  • National Map of the long-term Needs of the Healthcare Sector (adopted in December 2022);
  • National Health Strategy 2021-2030 and its action plan (adopted in January 2024);
  • National Strategy for Child and Adolescent Health and Paediatric Care in the Republic of Bulgaria 2021-2030 and its action plan (adopted in September 2023);
  • National Plan for Combating Cancer in the Republic of Bulgaria 2021-2027 (adopted in January 2023);
  • National Strategy for Healthy Geriatric Care and Ageing in the Republic of Bulgaria 2021-2030 and its action plan;
  • National Plan for the Restructuring of Hospital Care in the Republic of Bulgaria 2021-2027.

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