The National Health Insurance Fund and the Bulgarian Medical Union are starting negotiations for an annex to the National Framework Agreement 2020-2022. This became clear at a meeting held today between the Minister of Health Stoycho Katsarov, the head of the National Health Insurance Fund Prof. Petko Salchev and the chairman of the Bulgarian Medical Union, Dr. Ivan Madjarov.
The annex provides for the effective application of the "money follows the patient" principle, while respecting the patient's right to choose a medical institution; reducing the disparities in the remuneration of physicians; introduction of an electronic document of the medical history; a change in the procedure for the provision of emergency medical care in order to eliminate the 24-hour availability of general practitioners, etc.
The Bulgarian Ministry of Health has organised medical assistance for those injured in the nightclub fire in northern Macedonia. The tragedy, which occurred overnight in the town of Kočani, claimed the lives of more than 50 people and left more than 100..
In response to the tragedy in North Macedonia, where more than 50 people lost their lives in a fire at a nightclub in the town of Kočani, Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev offered condolences and assistance to the families and relatives of the victims,..
A protest is taking place in Sofia to demand maximum sentences for a man and a woman who killed animals in a particularly cruel way. So far, nearly 60,000 people have signed an online petition calling for life sentences. The killings, which..
Bulgarian citizens and road hauliers should avoid traveling to Serbia on March 15 and 16 except in cases of extreme necessity , until the protest actions..
Bulgarian Ambassador to the United States Georgi Panayotov and Raycho Raychev, founder and CEO of the Bulgarian company EnduroSat , met with experts..
The prehistoric complex "Provadiya-Solnitsata" - the oldest salt production and urban centre in Europe (5600 - 4350 BC) - is among the sites nominated..
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