At the end of June, joining the World Continence Week campaign with the rest of the world, the National Health Insurance Fund under the Ministry of Health (NHIF) is raising the public awareness of the issue of incontinence. NHIF experts are kindly reminding of the measures that can be reimbursed from the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund.

Experts of the National Health Insurance Fund under the Ministry of Health have started implementing the European Union Twinning Tool ‘Strengthening mandatory health insurance mechanisms in Azerbaijan (Phase 2).’ This project will take place for two years.

In the first quarter of this year, more than 84 thousand people, registered at medical institutions in Vilnius and Alytus districts, were reminded of check their health based on available prevention programmes.

The structural reform of healthcare institutions is expected to include specific changes in the procedure of payment for the services. The changes in funding are expected to enable an increase in the availability of healthcare services to patients and improve the working conditions of the medical staff.

You never know if your trip gets disrupted by an acute illness or a trauma. Yet travellers covered by a compulsory health insurance may be sure that they will receive emergency medical aid abroad as fast as possible and it will be fully or partially covered by the state funds.

Last year, consistent consulting and monitoring of healthcare institutions, pharmacies, opticians and other economic entities, conducted by the health insurance funds, enabled to evade more than one million Euro in damage to the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund.

Last year, the number of patients, consuming reimbursable medication or using medical aids was 1.12 million. According to the analysis, conducted by the National Health Insurance Fund under the Ministry of Health, this is more than 40 per cent of the entire Lithuanian population.

Nearly 102 thousand – this was the number of resident inquiries, received on the general information phone line and e-mail of the National Health Insurance Fund under the Ministry of Health last year, says a study. The institution receives a similar number of inquiries every year.

The healthcare network reform focused a lot of attention on the team of a general physician. Addressing potential gaps in funding to date would lead to a collaborative GP team model, based on the principle, which says that larger GP teams that show better compliance with their patient interests ...

The scope of safe, convenient and modern day surgery services, offered in Lithuania, is still too small – surgeries with patients leaving home on the same day constitute merely 24 per cent of the total number of simple operations all over the country.

In urgent cases, patients with serious conditions, such as stroke, heart attack, arthroplasty, severe trauma, cancer patients, will be referred for medical rehabilitation via “green corridors”, which means they will receive services in the shortest possible time in priority order.

As the International Women's Health Day on 28 May approaches, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, together with the , urges Lithuanian women to take better care of themselves and to undergo periodic health check-ups under the Breast and Cervical cancer prevention programmes.