Professional Protocols and Guidelines in Operating Healthcare

The professional foundations of Hungarian healthcare are guaranteed by the application of professional guidelines and adjacent local protocols (rules of procedure) based on evidence-based medicine and on the consensus of the different professions (multidisciplinarity). The sectorial neutrality of professional rules and of the licensing of operators promote that patients be provided with high-standard healthcare both within the publically and the privately financed healthcare system. From March 2013, there are laws specifying the protocols for establishing healthcare guidelines. In the course of developing new professional healthcare guidelines, we are paying attention – besides the above – to make sure that the new guidelines contain the indicators to be applied in the case of administrative inquests, professional quality assessments, and that they reflect the standpoints of patients, patient organizations, family practitioners and other interested parties.