Improving financial protection through expanding access to medicines. This includes further national scale up and elaboration of mechanisms of price regulation including introduction of e-prescription system. Public campaign on new prices for medicines and reimbursement model and strengthening of procurement and pricing to improve access to selected Essential Medicines, e.g. to address high burden from NCDs.
Price regulation and practices are improved leading to decreased patient cost sharing to medicines in additional drug package via implementation new regulation on price regulation for ADP medicines and improved practices of hospital procurement. Regulation of revision of EML and ADP updated.
Scaling up the Quality of care and patient safety in Kyrgyzstan recommended by the QOC assessment and further collaborative consultations
QoC unit of MoH capacity strengthened
, WHO supported MoH with development of the Quality of Care and Patient Safety (QoC&PS)strategy and road map which has been approved on 4 May 2023. The Coordination Committee on QoC and PS with a function to lead implementation of QoC &PS strategy has been approved on 31st May 2023 # 657. WHO coordinated the QoC strategy development TA with World Bank and co-lead the Quality Strategy Consensus Building Workshop held on 11-13 January 2023 prior to approve of QoC&PS strategy. Kyrgyzstan was invited to become a member of WHO European Quality of Care & Patient Safety Focal Points Networks at its first organizational Joint Meeting organized by the WHO Athens Quality of Care and Patient Safety Office in May 2023, in Athens, Greece. The MoH representatives presented the QoC strategy among the 26 countries from the European region of WHO. the plans for next 6 months preliminary agreed to support MoH QoC unit capacity building.
Health Policy Advisor supports the implementation of the Working for Health Grant, namely by supporting the MoH to strengthen its health workforce planning capacity
Support MHIF institutional capacity strengthening to scale up the health service purchasing methods for PHC and hospital services toward improving efficiency and coverage of SGBP
Assessment of the governance of strategic purchasing in Kyrgyzstan’s health financing system based on the analysis and synthesis of the institutional capacity strengthening TA in the past 2 years published as a health financing case study (https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/governance-for-strategic-purchasing-in-kyrgyzstan-s-health-financing-system)
Organization of a high-level policy dialogue with Vice-Prime-Minister, MoH, MoF, MHIF and WB, German and Swiss development cooperation to discuss the future of the governance of the MHIF.
Policy brief on Health financing in Kyrgyzstan: obstacles and opportunities to improve the response to Covid19 with a set of policy recommendations on how to address the weaknesses in health financing laid bare by the pandemic produced by WHO CO in collaboration with GDO Barcelona.
TA for strengthening the budget formulation and implementation function of MHIF.
Tableau Business Intelligence software provided to MHIF to analyze and visualize population health indicators and the national, oblast, rayon and even hospital level
Implementation of of Drug Regulatory Agency institutional strategy and capacity building to contribute to increasing of access to Essential Medicines.
Functions carried out by NRA have been strengthened through implementation of Institutional development plan agreed and developed as a result of self-benchmarking of NRA using WHO tool.
Facilitate introduction and establishment of health service costing system of health services to feed in the DRG revision and calculation of health services cost
MHIF uses the data management system to address coverage and bottlenecks, capacity building on case-based payment system and DRG updating, improving scorecards and indicators for monitoring progress towards UHC.
Maintain the technical engagement and monitoring of development of health service delivery Master plan and contribute by providing the assessments and other up-to-date evidence
The health service delivery Master plan provides clear recommendations for optimization of health service delivery
Capacity-building activity for country staff on strengthening internal communication
Capacity-building activity for country staff on strengthening internal communication, foster cultural foster, and enhance technical and administrative processes
Contribute to the policy dialogue on development of the MoH service delivery master plan using the results on hospital safety assessment, emergency medical service assessment results and other up-to-date evidence
Accurate, up-to-date evidence on what works and what does not work regarding health financing reforms for universal coverage is available and shared across countries
Development and dissemination of technical reports, visual materials (posters, flyers, brochures and etc.)
Printing and visual materials (posters, flyers, brochures, and etc.) materials would facilitate the informed decision making and streamline the discussion process during various high-level meetings e.g. Joint Annual Review (JAR) and Thematic weeks as well as the round tables, seminars with participation of wide range of stakeholders.
Developing a roadmap to building complex Quality of Care management system for improving access and quality of need care
The Road Map on quality of care management system provides clear actions and milestones for development of comprehensive, balanced, system of Quality of Care management system
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