Quality Council
The Quality Council is an advisory body to the Minister of Health. It is composed of experts in the fields of healthcare quality, the medical profession, pharmacy, health economics, healthcare organization, law, and representatives of nongovernmental organizations working in the field of patient rights protection.
The Quality Council performs the following tasks:
- monitors systemic, developmental, and personnel issues related to healthcare quality
and proposes measures to the Minister, defining priorities; - advises the Minister on the preparation of national documents related to healthcare quality;
- advises the Minister on the preparation of other regulations in the field of healthcare quality;
- proposes the adoption of clinical guidelines to the Health Council;
- addresses other important issues in the field of healthcare quality.
The chair and members of the Quality Council are appointed for a four-year term.