Minister for Health Andrea Kalavská has signed the first 31 standard diagnostic and therapeutic procedures that have been put into practice since the new year. They will be binding on doctors, nurses and health professionals. These include, for example, nursing, clinical oncology, radiation oncology, radiology, nuclear medicine, psychiatry, primary paediatrics, neonatology and obstetrics, and cancer screening. After years, we put clear rules into practice. Standard diagnostic and therapeutic procedures will clearly define what prevention, diagnosis or treatment should look like. The aim is to ensure equal access to healthcare for all patients throughout Slovakia, and said Andrea Kalavská, head of health department.

Thanks to the gradual introduction of standard procedures and procedures for the implementation of prevention with defined procedure and patient path from prevention, through diagnostics to treatment, it will be possible to better implement the complete management of the patient and not just partial care with the patient wandering in the system ," explained the professional guarantor of the project Jozef Šuvada.

MZ SR is intensively working on standard procedures for individual health departments as well as interdisciplinary areas. To date, expert working groups have set up and for the evaluation of the Commission of SR MZ for SDTP submitted 152 standard procedures, most of which are at the stage of completion and preparation of implementation.

The following procedures shall apply from the new year:

  1. Care of the newborn and mother according to the principles of the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative, support for relationship binding and lactation
  2. Standard diagnostic and therapeutic procedure for the complex management of cervical cancer
  3. Standard procedures for medical exposure in nuclear medicine
  4. Comprehensive patient care management in ADOS
  5. Comprehensive patient care management in a social assistance facility
  6. Comprehensive care management of the decubit patient
  7. Comprehensive care management of patients with behavioural disorders

The Ministry of Health cooperates with international professional companies, universities and the World Health Organisation in the compilation of individual procedures. I would like to thank all those involved in this project, particularly members of the expert working groups and the Commission of MZ SR for standard diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, thank you for the work done, concluded by the Minister of Health of SR Andrea Kalavská.

In subsequent stages, standard diagnostic and therapeutic procedures should be developed for other medical fields. It is a total of 150 other specialization areas.