The objective of the reform is to increase the resilience of the health system to shocks, as well as to increase the population’s access to quality and timely healthcare by providing the strategic underpinning of future investments and reforms and identifying relevant actions. The reform shall include the adoption of a number of strategies and plans, namely: the National Health Strategy 2021-2030, which shall aim to address the existing structural challenges of the health sector, including the shortages of healthcare professionals across the territory, by setting out the strategic goals and priorities over a 10-year period; the National Strategy for Mental Health of the Citizens of the Republic of Bulgaria 2021-2030, which shall provide recommendations to foster the integration of psychiatric services into community-based services and services received at home (deinstitutionalisation), as well as addressing the main problems faced by the psychiatric care system in the country, including outdated equipment and facilities as well as staff shortages; the National Strategy for Child and Adolescent Health and Paediatric Care in the Republic of Bulgaria 2021-2030, which shall provide targeted recommendations to strengthen health care services for children and adolescents, starting from pregnancy; (...) The implementation of the reform shall be completed by 31 March 2023.
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