29.04.2024

THERE WILL BE ONE LESS DRIVE IN TEMC FROM JUNE 21

One of the most redundant and criticized rings of the big bureaucracy in the TEMC system is being dropped. As of June 21, the certification in the card file of the expert decisions that have entered into force is canceled, the Ministry of Health announced. These certifications have been replaced by noting the same circumstances in the Electronic Medical Expertise Control System.

Known among patients as the "seal", the certifications were required for decisions marked "entered into force" and "for NEMC" in appealed decisions. Thus, despite the entry into force of a decision, the patient had to wait between 14 and 29 days to certify the decision in the file of the medical examination. Only after this additional seal does it come into force. Fortunately, some services such as the Social Assistance Agency are pushing for the granting of benefits without the stamp of approval, but harassment could not be avoided, although in many cases it is about people with motor and other disabilities.

The changes are part of a large-scale reformatting of the system, with which three governments are engaged - the changes were prepared by the team of the Ministry of Health under the acting minister Asen Medzhidiev, they were accepted by the office of Academician Nikolay Denkov, and now their entry into force will be prepared by the team of the official minister Galya Kondeva.

Another part of the reform also started unexpectedly - the doubling of TEMC commissions. Now their workload is extremely uneven, there is a lack of doctors in a number of areas and the commissions work with enormous delays. With regulatory changes, all state and municipal multi-specialty hospitals were obliged to disclose a territorial expert medical commission. The same requirement was introduced for complex oncology centers. In those of them, which are university hospitals and/or commercial companies with mixed state and municipal participation in the capital, at least two territorial expert medical commissions are created.

The new commissions must be established within one month of the entry into force of the changes. These changes were promulgated on March 19 in the State Gazette and come into force on March 23 regarding the creation of TEMC, the Ministry of Health explains. This means that hospitals must now fulfill their new obligation. Information about the progress of this process changes daily, but by the beginning of the week, the creation of more than 50 new TEMCs had already been agreed upon, the department states. After the creation of the new commissions, a period of two months follows for the training of doctors in the activity of medical expertise, which is carried out by NEMC. Currently, there are 72 active TEMCs in the country.