IMF mission - May 2016

From 30 May to 6 June 2016, the Value for Money Department in cooperation with the IMF organised a workshop on assessing the public expenditure effectiveness in Slovakia. The aim was to introduce the concept and foreign experience with the spending review in the area of transport, informatisation and health services.

The key recommendations of the workshop are summarised in the Summary Report of Joint IMF/EC Technical Assistance.

•   Summary of Joint IMF/EC Technical Assistance

Healthcare:

•   A brief overview of regulation of pharmaceutical spending in France
•   Spending Review Healthcare
•   Spending Reviews in the field of Healthcare - Some lessons from European experience
•   Hospital Procurement - French Experience
•   Slovakia Spending Review - Incremental Health Reform Strategies
•   Building Quality & Efficiency

Transport:

• Transport Spending – some thoughts
• Information Session for Ministerstvo financií Slovenskej republiky - International Transport Forum
• Inefficiency of Risk Pricing in Public-Private Partnerships
• Private participation in infrastructure
• Feedback on the assessment of the transport sector

Informatization:

• Meeting with MAREG and Developement organized by SRSS
• IT Spending Effectiveness (Spending Review)
• IT Spending Review – Expert Mission Kick Off

Summary presentations:

• Spending review checkpoint
• Slovakia Spending Reviews - Wrap-up Meeting