Upgrading the strategic framework of the healthcare sector

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 high-quality and timely healthcare by providing the strategic underpinning of future investments and reforms and identifying relevant actions.

The reform includes the adoption of a number of strategies and action plans with specific measures, such as:

• National Strategy for Mental Health of the Citizens of the Republic of Bulgaria 2021-2030 and of its action plan (adopted in November 2021);
• National Map of the long-term Needs of the Healthcare Sector (adopted in December 2022);
• National Health Strategy 2021-2030 and its action plan (adopted in January 2024);
• National Strategy for Child and Adolescent Health and Paediatric Care in the Republic of Bulgaria 2021-2030 and its action plan (adopted in September 2023);
• National Plan for Combating Cancer in the Republic of Bulgaria 2021-2027 (adopted in January 2023);
• National Strategy for Healthy Geriatric Care and Ageing in the Republic of Bulgaria 2021-2030 and its action plan;
• National Plan for the Restructuring of Hospital Care in the Republic of Bulgaria 2021-2027.

Additional links:

• https://www.mh.government.bg/bg/politiki/strategii-i-kontseptsii/strate…
• https://www.mh.government.bg/bg/politiki/planove/