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Representatives from the Pilot Regions Get to Know a European Practice On the Way to Health Care Reform

April 25, 2005.

    The administrators of all ranks from the Saki rayon Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Myhailivka rayon Zaporizzhya region, town of Komsomolsk Poltava region and the officials from the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and Crimea intend to get to know a European expertise of the primary health care provision to public so that they could apply this knowledge in the local health care reform.
    On 24th April a week-long study tour to the UK started. The participants of the study tour represent the regions involved into implementation of the EC-funded project „Preventative and Primary Health Care of Ukraine, Kyiv and Some Regions” focused at introduction of a new model of the primary health care provision based on family medicine aimed at increasing efficiency, quality and accessibility of health care in Ukraine.
    The representatives from the pilot regions will see a European experience in Northern Ireland and England. They will see the role of the primary care in the health care system of the UK, will see how the system is financed, will see the functional peculiarities of both municipal and rural health care. The participants of the study tour will attend lectures, discussions, national health care trust, health care centre, general practices, round-the-clock nursing services, hospice, NHS Direct Online. The participants of the study tour will also visit RCGP in London.
    This is a second study tour organized for the representatives from the pilot regions by the EC-funded project. Last autumn the Ukrainian family physicians and nurses who successfully completed their training in family medicine went on a first study tour to the UK. They were able to get to know professional work standards of their British colleagues and now they successfully apply this knowledge in their practice every day.
    A chance to know a European experience is just one of the aspects of the project work. The work in the pilots includes re-training of family physicians and nurses, procurement of medical, computer and office equipment to the family medicine centres, and refocus of the overall health care system from SHC to PHC, changes in the funding scheme and introduction of the incentives scheme.
    Since October 2002, the EC-funded project “Preventive And Primary Health Care of Ukraine, Kyiv And Some Regions” is being implemented by the German Consortium CII Group/EPOS, project completion scheduled after 36 months. The mission of the project is to improve quality, efficiency and accessibility of primary health care for the population of Ukraine. Expected output – development of the primary health care model to be further implemented nationwide.
    The СІІ Group/ЕPOS Consortium, involved in implementation of the EC-funded project on family medicine in Ukraine, is an independent international consulting company, specializing in provision of services to international donor organizations, national and local authorities and private entities in Central and Eastern Europe. In Ukraine, the group has been successfully performing for the last nine years: it provides consulting to the Міnistry of Health Care of Ukraine, has successfully implemented the EU-funded project in the pharmaceutical industry.
    Contact information: Lyubov Pavlyukh,
    tеl/fаx: (044) 235-6042, 246-5986,
    e-mail: LP@cii.kiev.uа
    For press! The web-portal www.svitua.com hosts a section devoted to „Family Medicine” with the content mailed out to 500 recipients, among them – central and local government offices, international and Ukrainian NGO’s, press and media, most are located in the regions. The journalists can use this information free of charge or can re-print whole articles, and also can mail in own feedback and comments.


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