What can we expect from healthcare reform in 2025? What challenges does the healthcare system face? What changes are needed by society and the medical community? New Country sought to answer these questions during a thematic discussion panel with the participation of the main stakeholders in the reform:
- Viktor Lyashko, Minister of Health;
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Viktor Lyashko
- Nataliya Husak, Head of the National Health Service;
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Nataliya Husak
- Mykhaylo Radutskyy, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Health, Medical Care and Medical Insurance.
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Mykhaylo Radutskyy
And also – Ihor Liski, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the investment company EFI Group, with whom LB.ua is jointly implementing New Country.
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Ihor Liski
Together with top speakers and guests of the event – doctors, representatives of patient and public organisations, professional associations, the pharmaceutical industry, private hospitals, and members of parliament – they also discussed patient verification, insurance-based medicine, donor funding, staff turnover, the state of medical education, services in frontline territories, a level playing field for the public and private sectors, fair payment for services, the role of medicine in building a new country, and more.
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Ihor Liski, Nataliya Husak, Viktor Lyashko, Mykhaylo Radutskyy (right) during the discussion
“Three key words that symbolise my progress and that of my team, which I lead: accessibility, quality, and free medical care for patients,” said Health Minister Viktor Lyashko. He identified three main challenges on this path: a shortage of medical personnel, the state of the economy, and a reluctance to tell the truth.
“We are building a patient-oriented healthcare system, but everyone in this system either leaves something unsaid or does not always tell the truth, which distorts certain things, certain initiatives, and we cannot move where we want to move,” the minister noted.
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Nataliya Husak, Head of the National Health Service
As of the end of June, approximately 1 million Ukrainian children remained outside the NHSU electronic system, meaning that the doctors who treat them risk losing their pay. On 1 July, the patient verification period came to an end, and, according to NHSU head Nataliya Husak, more than 89% of children were successfully verified. Overall, 95% of patients were verified.
“This shows that the system inspires confidence not only among international partners who finance the medical guarantee programme, but also among our main stakeholders – the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Health, and law enforcement agencies. This is important because this trust will be measured in terms of the amount of funding that may be additionally allocated in the coming years,” Husak noted.
She hopes that in the near future, the proportion of unverified cases will decrease significantly; communication is ongoing with those who are abroad and do not wish to be verified.
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Ihor Liski, Nataliya Husak, Viktor Lyashko, Mykhaylo Radutskyy (right) during the discussion
“The Ministry of Health should not decide on issues that should be dealt with by self-government. It wasn’t Ukraine that invented this. Self-government exists all over the world, and only in Ukraine is it somehow considered bad,” said Mykhaylo Radutskyy, head of the relevant parliamentary committee. However, he noted that the relevant bill currently has no chance of being passed.
Ukrainian medicine is one of the main positive factors encouraging Ukrainians to return from abroad, recalled businessman Ihor Liski.
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Ihor Liski, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the EFI Group investment company
“If we lose it, I doubt that millions of people will continue to return,” said Liski. “But there is also a strategic benchmark. In developed countries, healthcare – including beauty services and cosmetology – accounts for 50% of all spending. It is a colossal economic machine.
And more and more people will turn to it. Because robots will produce things, and people will always want to live longer and better, and that is the main factor in development.”
Look out for the full speeches from the main speakers and a summary of the discussion soon on LB.ua.
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Viktor Lyashko, Health Minister
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Nataliya Husak, Head of the National Health Service
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Viktor Lyashko, Health Minister
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Mykhaylo Radutskyy, head of the specialised committee of the Verkhovna Rada
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Ihor Liski, Nataliya Husak, Viktor Lyashko, Mykhaylo Radutskyy during the discussion
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Ihor Liski, Nataliya Husak, Viktor Lyashko, Mykhaylo Radutskyy and moderator Sonya Koshkina during the discussion
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Moderator and editor-in-chief of LB.ua Sonya Koshkina
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Nataliya Onipko, President of the Charity Foundation
Zaporuka
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Otto Stoyka, public health expert
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Vladyslav Zbanatskyy, Swiss project
Act for Health
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Lyubov Hura, Swiss project
Act for Health
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General Director of the Dobrobut Medical Network Serhiy Orel
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Director of the Board of Directors of the pharmaceutical company Darnytsya Kateryna Zahoriy
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Viktoriya Tymoshevska, co-founder of the Charitable Foundation Healthy Solutions
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Iryna Koshkina, Executive Director of the Charitable Foundation Svoi
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Oleksandr Lysytsya, head of the TCM branch in Okhmatdyt
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Nataliya Huran, head of the NGO Medicine Control
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Kostyantyn Vashchenko, Institute of Social, Legal and Political Studies named after Oleksandr Yaremenko of the Ukrainian State University named after Mykhaylo Drahomanov.
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Kseniya Voznitsyna, Director of the State Mental Health and Rehabilitation Centre for Veterans
Lisova Polyana'
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Dr Slava Kopetskyy, oncologist
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Kateryna Nikolayenko – Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ‘Medical Star’ network
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Former head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine Olha Batova (left)
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Co-founder of ‘Technology of Progress’ Maks Nefyodov
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Bohdan Fushchych, assistant to MP Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze
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Oleksandr Yanev, Director of the Legal Department of SANOFI
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Dmytro Losyev, Government Relations Practice
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Nana Voytenko, Rector of the Academy Dobtobut
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Sonya Koshkina
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Oleh Robeyko, Director of 'MZ Chernihivska' LLC
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Iryna Voloshyna, professor, representative of the board of the Academy of Family Medicine of Ukraine and the NGO ‘Parents for Vaccination’ and immunologist Fedir Lapiy
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Yuriy Borshch, entrepreneur
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Volodymyr Bugrov, Rector of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
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Semen Kryvonos, Head of NABU
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Editor of the ‘Health’ department of LB.ua Iryna Andriytsiv
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Yevhen Prylipko, Head of the Public Organisation ‘Health Care Transformation Forum’
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Viktor Lyashko and Mykhaylo Radutskyy
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Viktor Lyashko and Nataliya Husak
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The founder of 'Come Back Alive' Vitaliy Deyneha (right) and Kostyantyn Vashchenko, 'The Oleksandr Yaremenko Institute for Social, Legal and Political Studies' of the Mykhaylo Drahomanov Ukrainian State University.
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Dr Slava Kopetskyy and Inesa Matyushenko, GMKA
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Director of INL Richard Saunders and Deputy Head of NABU Polina Lysenko
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From left to right: scientist and science populariser Anton Senenko, co-founder of Technology Progress Maks Nefyodov, head of the Health Care Transformation Forum public association Yevheniy Prikhodko, and Iryna Navolnyeva, head of external communications at
Dobrobut.
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Kseniya Voznitsyna, Director of the State Mental Health and Rehabilitation Centre for Veterans
Lisova Polyana, and Minister Viktor Lyashko
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Viktor Proshkin, chaplain of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Growford Institute, MP Olha Chervakova, Head of the Health Department of the Ministry of Defence Dmytro Samofalov and public health expert Otto Stoyka
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Speakers and moderator Sonya Koshkina after the discussion
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Group photo of guests and speakers after discussion
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Photo after the discussion
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Ihor Liski, Viktor Lyashko (centre) and Yevhen Prylypko, expert of the
Healthcare platform
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Ihor Liski and Sonya Koshkina
