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of the country and telemedicine and tele-consultation have still seen
considerable investment (2011).
• Allocation of budgetary funds to specific projects decided according to
economic evaluation.
• The pilot project (see above) aimed for allocation of about 40% of the total
health care funding to outpatient institutions (including emergency medical
care); expansion of rights and independence of managers and heads of health
care institutions in cost-management and use of resources; restructuring of
hospital bed numbers initiated, taking into consideration population needs
and morbidity (2013).
Priority setting or protocols to change access to treatments, coordination
of care and patterns of use
• Decreased proportion of inpatient services and redirection of resources
to day care and outpatient care (expenditure allocated to outpatient
institutions as a percentage of total health expenditure increased from
31.4% in 2008 to 35.0% in 2009, 38% in 2010 and 40% in 2011).
• Elimination of laboratory testing duplication at different levels of the
system (2010–2012).
Waiting times
• No response reported.
Health promotion and prevention
• Annual increases in the price of alcohol and tobacco (since 2010).
• Increase in the price of tobacco by 62% and in the price of alcohol by 28.4%
(2012).