Name of the national project:
Stabilization of staff in palliative care and creation of support teams in the field of long-term and palliative health care
ITMS21+ code: 401405A137
Programme: Programme Slovakia - SK - ERDF/CF/FST/ESF+
Caller: Mediating Authority of the Slovak Republic - Ministry of Health
Call code: PSK-MZ-005-2024-NP-ESF+
Accepted amount of non-repayable project financial contribution: 8 201 949,92 EUR
Period of implementation of the project: 10/204 - 9/2027
Authorised users: hospitals, hospice, mobile hospice
Priority: 4P5 Active inclusion and available services
Specific objective: ESO4.11 - Improving equal and timely access to quality, sustainable and affordable services, including those promoting access to housing and individualised care, including healthcare; modernising social protection systems, including promoting access to social protection, with a particular focus on children and disadvantaged groups; improving accessibility, including for persons with disabilities, the effectiveness and resilience of health care systems and long-term care services (ESF+)
Brief description of the project:
The main objective of the national project is to ensure and maintain personnel capacity in long-term and palliative care for persons with a long-term progressive disease. At the same time, there will be a lack of links between health and social care and coordination of health care and social services through support teams. These steps will strengthen their delivery at Community level. By providing social assistance, it will ensure that a person is released from the constitutional medical facility as soon as possible into its natural environment with social support. The support team may start its activities with a person placed on a so-called "acute' bed, thus helping to ensure the social background of the person in good time and prepare his family members for his or her home or other natural background. The support team shall serve as a tool to accelerate the transition from acute healthcare to subsequent healthcare and/or care in the natural environment of the person.
Basic objectives of the project:
The goal of the national project is to achieve the primary additional provision of personnel capacity, or increase the number of health and support personnel across the whole Slovak Republic, by creating support (multidisciplinary) teams, stabilization of professional staff in outpatient and institutional care providing long-term palliative care. The setting and implementation of palliative education will ensure the availability of care for patients in all regions of the Slovak Republic. By defining a support team in the law, it is important to set up a pilot setting for the introduction of these teams within regional hospitals, and subsequently to establish expert guidance. for their extension. Professional guidance/methodological materials will be the result of sub-activity 2 in the implementation of support teams in individual counties.
The objectives of the national project will be pursued through activities such as:
Main activity: Provision of additional personnel capacity in long-term and palliative care for patients with complex problems and/or dependent on assistance from another person
Subactivity 1: Stabilization of staff in palliative care and implementation of multidisciplinary approach in mobile hospices and hospices
Subactivity 2: Creation of basic methodological materials for support team activities
Subactivity 3: Establishment of support teams in the field of long-term and palliative care
Expected benefits of the project:
- stabilization of those mobile hospices and stone hospices that provide quality and affordable palliative health care in working time sold geographic region with multidisciplinary staffing team i.e. palliatologist or doctor in preparation for a specialized examination of palliative medicine, nurses and assisting staff of at least 150 patients per year. (Art.10e of Law 576/2004) Z.z.),
- Pilot establishment of hospital support teams for the smooth transition of the patient from acute care to subsequent, long-term nursing or palliative care when implementing the patient's journey in long-term and palliative care. (Art.2 36-39 and §10c, §10d and §10e of the Act576/2004) Z.z.),
- ensuring a multidisciplinary hospice approach by supporting the creation/operation of helping professions. (§4, paragraph 9 of Law 576/2004) Z.z.).
The project is co-financed by the European Union under the Programme Slovakia
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