The Ministry of Health, in cooperation with experts, is actively working on developing standard prevention, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. It is currently approved for example from the areas of clinical oncology, paediatric oncology, radiation oncology, nursing, nuclear medicine, radiology, psychiatry, palliative medicine, general medicine, gynecology, pneumology, internal medicine or cardiology and is currently working on the development of another hundred. Thus, the resort continues to take a turning point, to which it has given it a greenery and has put into practice the former health minister Tomáš Drucker. Standard preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures were lacking in the system for many years. Standard diagnostic and therapeutic procedures are some kind of imaginary guide to the treatment of the diagnosis. It is also important to make them understandable to the general public. Each standard procedure will therefore also be prepared in a language understood by the patient. The expert teams are working on standards that will define how a doctor should proceed with a particular illness, to which the patient is entitled and to what extent. Compliance with good practice will also protect doctors, said Minister of Health of SR Andrea Kalavská. The resort also continues its educational activities. Last week, a conference on new and innovative standard diagnostic and therapeutic procedures was held in Bratislava, organised by the Ministry of Health in cooperation with the WHO Office in Slovakia and the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. 190 participants from different professions from Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands participated. For example, the topic of the conference was standard procedures in long-term care. This section discussed the content and implementation of nursing, geriatric, internal, social and other areas included in the development of interdisciplinary standard procedures for long-term care. Standard procedures in palliative care have also been discussed in this area, the concept of palliative medicine has been created and practical steps discussed for the implementation of procedures for palliative care in Slovakia. –Representatives of volunteer organisations also participated, other opportunities for cooperation and participation of volunteers in palliative medicine were discussed, said expert guarantor of MZ SR for standard procedures Jozef Šuvada. The patient is for
The ministry first, therefore, did not miss discussions with patient organisations at the conference. We wanted to promote awareness, raise awareness and inform patients about the content of approved standard procedures. Other topics such as informed consents, patient safety, patient participation and responsibilities for disease management, prevention and others were also raised in the debate. said Joseph Shuvada. The conference also focused on antimicrobial resistance, nosocomial infections and antibiotics. There was a debate on improving approaches to improving prevention and healthcare through new and innovative evidence-based approaches in the field of antimicrobial resistance, communicable diseases and the use of antibiotics in human and veterinary medicine. The theme was led by WHO leader of the Regional Office for Europe Danilo Lo Fo Wong, in cooperation with the antimicrobial expert and the chairman of the National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Affairs by Pavol Jarčuško.
