Specific country information sheet – Lithuania

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• Health Information Centre manages public health registers and is responsible for monitoring Lithuanian public health, healthcare activities and resources.
• Public Health Technology Centre conducts research into public health inequalities, performs technology assessment of health prevention technologies, develops and initiates evidence based public health interventions mainly in the fields of public health human resources and antimicrobial resistance.
• Occupational Health Centre conducts research in the fields of work related factors, their relation with employees’ physical and mental health and wellbeing and develops and initiates occupational health and health-promoting activities. It is tasked to collect health statistics on HC services and personnel as well as to provide data to Eurostat, OECD, WHO but it is not involved in planning the decision making process.

The Association is member of the National Committee for the Preparation of Public Order for the Training of Specialists in the National Health System (VUK).

Implement the state policy of science and studies in accordance with the Law on Science and Studies and other legislation.

Coordinate the activity of Lithuanian institutions of science and studies, etc.

The Ministry is member of the National Committee for the Preparation of Public Order for the Training of Specialists in the National Health System (VUK).

Its mission is to draft and adopt health policy that ensures public health, high quality health promotion activities and the rational use of resources.

The Ministry is member of the National Committee for the Preparation of Public Order for the Training of Specialists in the National Health System (VUK).

Business environment: issues relating to business development, small and medium-sized companies, supply of capital, entrepreneurship, simplification of rules, reduction of administrative burden on business, general conditions for enterprise growth.

Investment: improvement of the investment environment, attraction of foreign investors, creation of favourable conditions for local investors.

Export: export promotion of Lithuanian enterprises, support aimed for export development, commercial attache in Europe, Russia, the United States and China.

Innovation: issues relating to patents and innovation, investments in the development of high value added products, cooperation between science and business, commercialisation of scientific research results and the promotion of clusterisation.

State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs): creation of conditions to reform the SOE management so as to ensure enhanced operation efficiency, better use of assets and higher performance results; increased transparency in the SOE sector.

EU support to business: modernisation of Lithuania‘s economy, support for economic development; the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation grants the lion’s share of support from the ES structural support funds to sectors like business, energy, research and tourism.

Public procurement: efficient and transparent system of public procurement in Lithuania; total amount of funds spent for public procurements accounts of one third of the national budget of Lithuania. Efficient public procurement control system is being developed and efficiency of dispute settlement in public procurement is being improved.

Tourism: tourism policy, international marketing of tourism, quality improvement of tourism services, attraction of foreign tourists.

• to supervise the lawfulness and effectiveness of the management and use of State fund and other assets  as well as the execution of the State budget;
• to promote positive and effective public audit impact on public finance management and control system, as well as public management.

• Licensing for health professionals (except dentistry)
• Licensing of legal entities for healthcare activities (except dentistry)
• Accreditation of legal entities for healthcare activities
• Carrying out conformity assessment roles of medical devices in accordance with EU directives
• Evaluation of healthcare technologies related to medical devices
• Use and management of expensive medical devices around the country
• Exercise of patients’ rights and supervisory roles
• Exercise of quality care functions in healthcare services

It provides data to the Ministry of Health but is not involved in planning the decision making process.

The Lithuanian Doctors Union participates in commissions formed by the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania, the Government and the Ministry of Health to draft legal acts, to discuss Lithuanian health problems and to prepare its reform. The Lithuanian Doctors Union has published the scientific journal “Medicina” since 1924.

LiMSA is a unique platform for international opportunities. Since 1991, LiMSA has been a member of the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA), which brings together more than 1.3 million biomedical students from 130 countries. It provides members with exceptional opportunities for exchange, representation and international cooperation.

Mission of the University: to create, accumulate, systematise and disseminate academic knowledge, the latest achievements in science and studies, to teach and develop a creative, honest, enterprising, educated, self-reliant and entrepreneurial personality, to foster democracy and prosperity, to develop a healthy and educated society; promote the economic and cultural prosperity of the country as well as the competitiveness of economic activities.

The University is a member of the National Committee for the Preparation of Public Order for the Training of Specialists in the National Health System (VUK).

The mission of the Faculty of Medicine is to educate high-quality, creative and critically-minded health professionals through the implementation of medical and health sciences at all levels and through fundamental, applied research in the medical and health sciences at an international level.

The University is a member of the National Committee for the Preparation of Public Order for the Training of Specialists in the National Health System (VUK).

Description of the Procedure of Concluding Loan Agreements of Lithuanian National Health System Institutions with Resident Physicians and Credit Institutions for the Prosperity of Resident Physicians.

1) state regulation of science and studies;

2) principles of quality assurance in science and studies;

3) legal bases for the establishment, termination and restructuring of research and higher education institutions;

4) awarding and recognition of higher education qualifications;

5) management, organisation and supervision of research and higher education institutions;

6) the rights and duties of teachers, researchers and students of science and studies institutions;

7) financing of studies;

8) the principles of the management, use and disposal of the assets of state funded research and higher education institutions.

• Medical Practice Licensing Rules.
• Description of requirements for professional development of doctors.

• Licensing Rules for Obstetrics.
• A description of the requirements for the professional development of midwives.

• Procedure for the professional development of healthcare and pharmacy professionals and its funding.
• Extent of professional development by issuing (re-registering) pharmaceutical practice licences.