In public electronic consultation was raised today, Thursday March 7, 2024, the draft law of the Ministry of Health, entitled: “Public health actions – Arrangements to strengthen the National Health System”.

The purpose of the draft law is the regulation of urgent issues under the Ministry of Health’s competence for the benefit of society, which aim, indicatively:

• To expand the possibilities of the doctors of the E.S.Y. to carry out private work utilizing their clinical experience and in establishing the necessary terms and conditions for this purpose,

• In determining the nature of the income of E.S.Y. doctors. from performing evening surgeries as self-employment income,

• In dealing with direct issues of health structures and Health Regions, as well as issues related to the granting of medical and nursing specialties,

• In the concentration of the supply of hospital medicines in one body, the National Central Authority for Health Supplies (E.K.A.P.Y.), with the aim of faster liquidation and payment of the suppliers of the hospitals of the E.S.Y. and of the General Hospital of Thessaloniki (G.N.Th.) “PAPAGEORGIOU”,

• In the rationalization and containment of pharmaceutical expenditure,

• In the resolution of issues of supervised bodies of the Ministry of Health, in particular the National Public Health Organization (EODY), the National Organization for the Provision of Health Services (EOPYY) and the National Central Authority of Health Supplies (E.K.A.P.Y.),

• In achieving vaccination coverage and better surveillance of the progression of the transmission of the Covid-19 disease,

• To promote the rapid implementation of the projects of the Recovery and Resiliency Fund under the responsibility of the Ministry of Health.

The Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis stated:
“On January 4, I was sworn in as Minister of Health for the second time. On March 7, our first funding bill to solve chronic problems of the National Health System as quickly as possible is put to public consultation. As the most important of all, I single out the expansion of the possibility for doctors to carry out private work by making use of their clinical experience, so that we can give further incentives to make the position of the doctor in the NHS more attractive, as well as the solution of any issues created by the operation of the afternoon surgeries. For the rest, there are many provisions that in their entirety will greatly help the operation of the system. I’m proud that we moved at lightning speed.”

The draft law will remain in public consultation until Tuesday, March 19, 2024.

See the bill in consultation at the following link:

Δημόσια ηλεκτρονική διαβούλευση για το σχέδιο νόμου του Υπουργείου Υγείας με τίτλο «Δράσεις δημόσιας υγείας – Ρυθμίσεις για την ενίσχυση του Εθνικού Συστήματος Υγείας»