The WHO-EU-LUX UHC Partnership (UHCP) enables the WHO Regional Office for Europe to scale up its support to Georgia over the next 2-3 years as the Government of Georgia seeks to move towards universal health coverage (UHC): ensuring all people can use the quality health services they need without experiencing financial hardship. WHO’s support focuses mainly on developing the capacity of the purchasing agency (the Social Services Agency, SSA), with a view to enhancing efficiency in the organization and delivery of publicly financed health services.

In 2018, the UHCP in Georgia focuses on three areas of activity:

1.      Preparing a strategy for strategic purchasing (SP) and providing support to increase the SSA’s capacity to implement this strategy

2.      Supporting DRG implementation and providing support to strengthen strategic purchasing

3.      Designing best practice patient pathways for selected priority clinical areas and developing tools to support their implementation