Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic

The Ministry of Health is responsible for:

• National health policy;
• Nursing education and health care professionals;
• Ensuring quality and patient safety in healthcare;
• The management of societal and national programmes aimed at promoting health;
• Keeping national health registries in cooperation with the National Health Information Centre;
• Cooperation with international organisations and institutions, including WHO, OECD, EU, Council of Europe, European Commission;
• Development of long-term goals of the professional health education;
• Regulation of professional and methodical activity of the Slovak Medical University, the Slovak Medical Library and coordination of professional education at secondary medical schools; and
• Coordination of foreign assistance of the EU (structural funds) in Health Department.

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