Draft law on liquidation of the MSEC submitted to the Rada: what will change in 2025
Kyiv • UNN
The government has registered a bill in the Verkhovna Rada to reform the system of medical and social expertise. Starting January 1, 2025, MSECs will be replaced by teams of medical practitioners in cluster healthcare facilities.
The Cabinet of Ministers has submitted to the Verkhovna Rada the announced bill on reforming (liquidating) the Medical Expert Commission. This was reported by MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak, UNN reports.
"The Cabinet of Ministers has submitted to the Rada the announced draft law on reforming (liquidating) the MSEC," Zheleznyak said.
The government's representative in the parliament, Taras Melnychuk, confirmed the information about the bill's submission to the Verkhovna Rada.
"The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, as the subject of the legislative initiative, registered the draft law in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine: The Draft Law "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on the Implementation of the Assessment of the Daily Functioning of a Person" (Reg. No. 12178)," Melnychuk said.
According to the document card on the Verkhovna Rada website, the draft law was "submitted to the management" and "sent to the Committee for consideration.
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The draft law aims to create a regulatory framework for changing approaches to assessing the needs and the mechanism for ensuring them for people with disabilities and reforming the system of medical and social expertise in Ukraine.
The Draft Law proposes to amend a number of legislative acts of Ukraine, in particular, the Fundamentals of Legislation of Ukraine on Health Care, the Laws of Ukraine "On Rehabilitation in Health Care", "On the Fundamentals of Social Protection of Persons with Disabilities in Ukraine", "On Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities in Ukraine", "On Compulsory State Pension Insurance", ‘On State Social Assistance to Persons Not entitled to Pensions and Persons with Disabilities’, ‘On Compulsory State Social Insurance’, ‘On the Status of War Veterans and Guarantees of Their Social Protection’ and many others:
- to replace the outdated system of medical and social assessment of persistent disabilities of adults with an assessment of the person's daily functioning, which will facilitate more efficient medical examination and, if there are grounds for it, provide mechanisms for legal protection at the stages of possible appeal of decisions;
- to establish that the assessment of a person's daily functioning is carried out by the relevant expert commissions formed in cluster and supercluster healthcare facilities, whose members bear civil, administrative and criminal liability in accordance with the law;
- to consolidate the list of functions of expert commissions and include, in particular, determining the disability group, referring a person for additional examination, planning and conducting a second examination, etc;
- to establish that a medical certificate of temporary disability is issued for the entire duration of the condition that leads to temporary disability;
- establish rules for the formation of an individual rehabilitation program for a person with a disability and requirements for its content, which will include four sections: the result of an assessment of the person's daily functioning; an individual plan for the provision of social services; an individual educational trajectory; an individual employment plan, etc.
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Starting January 1, 2025, Ukraine plans to completely eliminate the MSECs, as the system is switching to a new approach.
At present, the functions of the central MSEC are assigned to the Ukrainian State Research Institute of Medical and Social Problems of Disability.
