PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP TOWARD THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY CLINICS

Abstract

The article summarizes the main shortcomings in the functioning of university clinics, including inadequate material and technical equipment, the lack of up-to-date diagnostic and treatment technologies, low salary for medical personnel and scientific staff, students’ insufficient practical training. All these issues necessitate the search for more effective forms of establishing university clinics, and, in particular, on the principles of public-private partnership (PPP).
 It has been shown that one of the possible ways to develop university clinics is implementing private-public partnership (PPP) that can provide a number of advantages compared with purely public administration: private investment, development of innovative areas, ensuring economic stability, the influx of highly qualified personnel, providing high-quality medical care, ensuring profitability for enterprises etc.
 The article provides the methodological approaches to elaborating the model of PPP establishing based on PPP principles. Within the methodological approaches, the key stages of the establishment and development of university clinics and their management have been identified. These stages enable to monitor the implementation of the strategies for developing university clinics and to make adjustments it in accordance with environmental conditions.
 The methodological approaches presented in the article are summed up as a set of methods for investigating the possibilities and prospects of improving public and private business to solve a difficult practical task – to organize a modern university dental clinic based on PPP principles. The methodology of creating this model is an important prerequisite for organizing the model and serves as the basis for forming a modern management company, a legally independent high-technology clinical dental base of the university, and system of professional personnel training.