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Belgian reform package targets excessive medical fees
Belgian reform package targets excessive medical fees
Belgium

Belgium’s summer agreement reforms healthcare by limiting excessive doctor surcharges, ensuring fair billing and equal reimbursements, curbing pharmaceutical overspending, and promoting sustainable care while preserving provider autonomy. This marks a historic step...

Croatian Parliament amends Mandatory Health Insurance Act
Croatian Parliament amends Mandatory Health Insurance Act
Croatia

Croatia expanded health insurance exemptions, raised sickness benefits, reformed healthcare staff rules by abolishing internships, tightened misconduct standards, and passed a law requiring a master’s degree for speech therapists, with two years to comply. The...

Parliament approves Ghana Medical Trust Fund Bill
Parliament approves Ghana Medical Trust Fund Bill
Ghana

Ghana approved the MahamaCares Fund to support chronic disease patients outside NHIS coverage, funded by levies and contributions. Despite delays and political concerns over funding and branding, it aims to ease care costs. Further talks with Finance will address...

Morocco Overhauls Health Insurance System with New Unified Structure
Morocco Overhauls Health Insurance System with New Unified Structure
Morocco

Morocco has passed major reforms to unify its basic health insurance system under the National Social Security Fund (CNSS), aiming to improve efficiency, transparency, and access to healthcare as part of King Mohammed VI’s broader vision for universal social...

Vietnam enacts new social insurance law effective 1 July
Vietnam enacts new social insurance law effective 1 July
Vietnam

Vietnam’s new Social Insurance Law, effective 1 July, restricts lump-sum payouts to workers who meet specific conditions such as serious illness, emigration, or insufficient contribution years at retirement age, aiming to encourage long-term participation in the...

Reforming Bangladesh health systems for the future
Reforming Bangladesh health systems for the future
Bangladesh

Bangladesh's health sector faces urgent challenges as it approaches the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, particularly in achieving Universal Health Coverage. The Health Sector Reform Commission Report 2025 proposes significant constitutional amendments and systemic...

Denmark boosts national psychiatric care system in ‘historic’ move
Denmark boosts national psychiatric care system in ‘historic’ move
Denmark

Denmark’s historic 10-year psychiatry plan boosts funding by 35%, focuses on early, local treatment, expands care for youth, reduces coercion, and integrates social support. Legal guarantees aim to cut waiting times. Major improvements are planned, but change will be...

Italy strengthens health-care rights for homeless people
Italy strengthens health-care rights for homeless people
Italy

Homeless individuals in Italy face significant health challenges due to poor access to care. A new law enacted in November 2024 aims to improve their access to general practitioners, addressing health inequities and ensuring their right to health care, while also...