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Health Systems and Policy Monitor (HSPM)
An innovative platform that provides a detailed description of health systems and provides up-to-date information on reforms and changes that are particularly policy relevant. In parallel, the Health Reform Tracker (see the Tracker tab) provides an overview of health reforms in over 30 countries across the WHO European Region and North America. For detailed information on country policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020-2021, see our separate COVID-19 Health Systems Response Monitor (HSRM).
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Expanding the range of services in primary care
19 January 2026 | Country Update
From January 2026, family doctors will be given broader powers to independently diagnose diseases and prescribe more laboratory and rapid tests, thereby strengthening their role in patient care. These changes are intended to speed up the diagnostic process, improve the management of chronic diseases, and reduce the need for referrals to specialists by enabling tests such as vitamin B12, folic acid, vitamin D, thyroid function tests, Helicobacter pylori antigen detection, and various rapid infection tests to be performed directly in primary care settings.
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- Laura Miščikienė
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