Aktualizace III/1 2025 O sociálních službách, o veřejném zdravotním

Among the main changes and additions to the Social Services Act are: adjustments to community-based services, including outreach services, outpatient services, and residential services, which are provided in such a way as to enable a person to live independently in a manner consistent with the normal life of individuals of their age; the introduction of social-healthcare inpatient care as a combination of residential social services and inpatient healthcare; and the conditions for providing healthcare in social service facilities...

Change to the Public Health Insurance Act: The procedure changes in the event that a health insurance company ceases to exist due to a merger with another health insurance company, the regime for providing nursing care in residential social service facilities, the possibility of utilizing "standard" long-term inpatient care (i.e., excluding intensive long-term care) as a reimbursed service beyond the basic provision period of 90 days only upon approval by the health insurance company; if the application for assessing the insured person's entitlement to an extension of long-term inpatient care was submitted at least 10 days before the expiration of the period for which long-term inpatient care is a reimbursed service for the insured person, long-term inpatient care remains a reimbursed service until the day of legal validity...