REGISTRATION AND AUTHORIZATION PROCEDURES IN THE FIELD OF MEDICAL TOURISM

Abstract

The article is focused on studying such means of administrative and legal guaranteeing as registration and authorization procedures. The purpose of the article is to provide characteristics to authorization and registration procedures as type of administrative and legal means to guarantee the development of medical tourism on the basis of the analysis of the current legislation in the field of medical tourism. The objective of the scientific research is to prepare recommendations for further improvement of the current legislation on the researched issue in the tourist and health care sectors. To achieve scientific objectivity the author has used both general and special legal research methods; the methodological basis of which was universal dialectical methods used to reveal the nature and content of authorization and registration procedures as administrative and legal means of guaranteeing the development of medical tourism. The current regulatory legal acts regulating authorization and registration procedures in the field of tourism operations and health care sector related to medical tourism have been analyzed. It has been stated that the current legislation in the field of tourism operations and health care, regulating authorization and registration procedures, requires further improvement in order to ensure the efficient development of medical tourism, the effective attraction of investment in this area. Thus, the legislation on licensing activities in the field of medical tourism should be improved due to the peculiarities and specifics of medical services as an element of the tourist product, because the activities of travel agents under the current Ukrainian legislation are not subject to licensing, as well as the operations of the companies that are providers of medical services, where licensing of travel agencies’ operations is carried out without taking into account the peculiarities of medical tourism in terms of the content of this activity. Taking into account the conflicting provisions of the current legislation regarding the nature of accreditation of health care institutions, the author has offered to establish their mandatory accreditation at the legislative level, taking into account the risk of medical activities for health and life of consumers of health care services and in order to have real quality staffing, logistical and organizational provision of such services. Visa-requiring procedures need to be simplified in order to ensure the effective development of inbound medical tourism. The formation of the Unified Information Register of Medical Institutions (national and foreign), which have agreements (concluded agreements) in the field of medical tourism acquires special significance among registration procedures.