Area: Zdravstvo
Competent authority: MZ
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 45
Initiative accepted and completed: '2012-09-17'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2012-08-31'
Initiative published: '2012-08-31'
Initiative submitted: '2012-08-30'
Response from the competent authority: According to the Law on Patients' Rights (Official
  Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No 15/08), waiting time is the difference between
  the pre-agreed time of the start of a healthcare service and its actual start, expressed
  in minutes (Article 2). According to Article 14 of the Law, healthcare providers
  are obliged to ensure that waiting times are as short as possible, which means that
  healthcare institutions must also ensure that prescription times are as short as
  possible and expressed in minutes. In a case such as that described by the petitioner,
  it is not possible to speak of a waiting period, which is the expected period from
  the entry on the waiting list to the actual initial treatment, expressed in days
  and months. The eHealth project is already under way at the Ministry of Health,
  and an eRecipe project is foreseen to ensure the exchange of electronic documents
  between healthcare providers.
Text file: 45.txt
Title: Waiting time to obtain a prescription
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=45
