Expert Group on Health Systems Performance Assessment (HSPA)

In February 2014, the Council Work Party on Public Health at Senior Level invited Member States and the Commission to set up an Expert Group on Health Systems Performance Assessment (HSPA). The Expert Group was established in September 2014.

Assessing the performance of health systems is useful to properly understand how they work, and therefore to carry out actions to improve them. Performance assessment offers the transparency that is essential for securing accountability for health systems, thereby improving their functioning.

A sound assessment is essential to:

identify good and bad practice;
strengthen effectiveness of care;
increase accessibility;
improve the safety of patients.

Knowing how the health system works is the precondition to design effective health system reforms for the benefit of citizens.

Structural and organisational framework:

Terms of reference
Rules of procedure
Expert Group meetings (agenda, minutes and documents)
Participants (see list below)

Austria – Gesundheit Österreich, Federal Ministry of Health	Ireland - Department of Health
Belgium - National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance	Latvia - Ministry of Health
Bulgaria - Ministry of Health	Lithuania - Ministry of Health
Croatia – Ministry of Health	Luxembourg - Ministry of Health
Cyprus - Ministry of Health	Malta - Ministry for Energy and Health
Czech Republic - Ministry of Health	Netherlands - National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
Denmark - Ministry of Health	Poland - Ministry of Health
Estonia - Ministry of Social Affairs	Portugal - Ministry of Health
Finland - Ministry of Social Affairs and Health	Romania - Ministry of Health
France – Ministry of Health	Slovakia - Ministry of Health
Germany - Federal Ministry of Health	Slovenia - Ministry of Health
Greece - National School of Public Health	Spain - Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality
Hungary - National Healthcare Service Center	Sweden - National Board of Health and Welfare
Italy - National Agency of Regional Health Services (AGENAS)