Accreditation Board According to § 40 (1) of Act No. 578/2004 Coll. on Health Care Providers, Health Workers, Health Organisations and amending certain laws, as amended, the Advisory Body of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic (hereinafter referred to as "the Ministry') which performs tasks in the field of accreditation of further training of health workers, continuously monitors and evaluates the level of further training and carries out further activities in the field of further training of health workers.
Year 2012 has taken place:
- 7 ordinary plenary sessions
- 6 meetings of the working groups of the Commission in order to assess the educational establishments to implement the relevant study programme.
In addition to the working meetings held at the Ministry, other meetings of the working groups of the Commission outside the Ministry were held, provided by the relevant working group presidents.
In September, two new members of the commission were appointed, together with the chairmen of the working groups: prof. MUDr. Pavol Jarčuška, PhD., who represents the health profession doctor for therapeutic-diagnostic-laboratory disciplines and Bc. Stanislav Turis, who represents the health profession health rescuer.
The Commission continued its standardisation work this year and continued the adoption of minimum standards prepared under the chairmanship of the relevant working groups in cooperation with the main experts of the Ministry, professional organisations, professional companies and practitioners. As part of improving the learning process in the preparation of erudite professionals in the healthcare provision system, the Commission reiterated its views on proposals for innovation in the applicable minimum standards.
In the context of the preparation of the amendment to Decree No 296/2010 Coll. in 2013, the Commission addressed the optimisation of the system of specialisations and certified work activities in order to streamline and improve health care provided by healthcare professionals by specialists.
The Commission continued the process of assessing new applications for accreditation and the so-called reaccreditations requested by the relevant educational establishments carrying out further training of health professionals. Information on the number of diplomas issued on specialisation and certificates for 2012 by educational establishments accredited by the Ministry is set out in the Annex.
In the field of legislation related to further training of health professionals, the Commission has worked with the health education department to prepare the following materials:
- amendment of the yield of MZ SR, which sets minimum standards for specialization programmes, minimum standards for certification programmes and minimum standards for continuing learning programmes and their structure (hereinafter referred to as "rewards");
- the principles of accreditation for the implementation of study programmes;
- Regulation No 296/2010 of the Government of the Slovak Republic Z.z. on professional competence for the exercise of the health profession, way of further training of health professionals, system of specialisations and system of certified work activities as amended.
As part of the transposition of Directive 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography in the field of the training of health professionals, the Commission reviewed the content of minimum standards and proposed to add the issue of prevention of violence and sexual abuse of children in the context of the revision of yield.
Total submission to the Ministry in 2012 81 applications for accreditation for the implementation of specialisation programmes, certification courses, continuing training courses, first-aid instructor courses and first-aid courses.
Total issued 103 of which 91 decisions under which the educational establishments are authorised to carry out:
- specialisation Study programmes - 61 decisions (of which 13 Reaccreditation decisions,
- Certification Study programmes - 8 decisions,
- study programmes constant education - 3 decisions,
- first-aid courses - 18 decisions,
- first-aid instructor courses – 1 decision.
In Bratislava 28. 3. 2013
Prof. MUDr. Juraj Pechan, CSc.
The President
Accreditation Commission of MZ SR
for further training of health professionals
Annex: