Rada adopts law on liquidation of the MSEC: what will change in 2025
Kyiv • UNN
The Verkhovna Rada has voted to abolish medical and social expert commissions starting January 1, 2025. Instead, expert commissions will be created in cluster hospitals with a new system for assessing the functioning of a person.
The Verkhovna Rada has passed a bill to abolish medical and social expert commissions starting January 1, 2025. Instead, expert commissions will be created in cluster hospitals with a new system for assessing the functioning of a person. This was announced on Thursday by MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak in Telegram, UNN reports.
Details
"The Rada adopted a bill on the liquidation of the MSEC starting in 2025. "There were 259 votes in favor of draft law #12178," Zheleznyak wrote.
According to him, instead of such commissions, starting from January 1, 2025, expert commissions will be created in cluster and supercluster hospitals (a modern system for assessing the functioning of a person).
What is expected
The draft law, as previously reported , is aimed at creating a regulatory framework for changing approaches to assessing the identification of needs and the mechanism for ensuring them for persons 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- to replace the outdated system of medical and social assessment of persistent disabilities of adults with an assessment of the person's daily functioning, which will facilitate more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 period of the condition that leads to temporary disability;
- to establish rules for the development 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.
Recall
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.
