Abstract

The article is dedicated to the issues of legal medical sphere regulation in Ukraine. The purpose of the article is to study current issues of improving the Ukrainian legislation in the field of health care, to identify existing problems and outline the ways to solve them.The study of legal phenomena and legal categories was carried out through using general and special legal methods of cognition, namely: classification method, modeling, specific-statistical, systematical-structural, comparative-legal, formal-legal, dialectical and other methods of scientific analysis according to the research subject. Conclusions. The article asserts that for the effective reform of the medical sector and for sufficient protection of legal entities' rights and freedoms in the health care field, a high-quality regulatory framework is needed. It has been proven that the improvement of the current healthcare legislation is complicated by the complex essence of legal relations in this area and the lack of a clear and systematic approach. It is substantiated the expediency of passing the special consolidated legislative act with a clear internal structure – the Medical Code of Ukraine. The author proposes to amend provisions regulating the protection of personal data, epidemiological surveillance and infection control. The adoption of the law on medical self-government and development of modern industry standards for medical care is substantiated. The problems of industry staffing, as well as the lack of strategic documents for the training for health workers and imperfect instructions for managers of several health care institutions are analyzed. The author also identifies the main problems of personnel policy in the healthcare. The author specifies the necessity to unite the efforts of scientists and practitioners in the medicine and jurisprudence for solving all the individual problems on improving the regulatory framework in the field of health care. Keywords: medical reform, healthcare, regulatory act, legislation, Medical code, medical self-government, medical standard, COVID-19, declaration.

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