Published: 15 January 2017
Purpose. To analyze the problems of the territorial state guarantee program implementation in the Sverdlovsk region when delivering specialized medical aid in the transition to per capita financing and ways to address them. Methods. In the course of the research marketing questionnaire surveys of patients of self-financing outpatient clinic of the “Sverdlovsk Regional Clinical Hospital (SRCH) №1” have been carried out; the results of a sociological survey of satisfaction with the quality and accessibility of medical care in the consultative-diagnostic outpatient clinic of the Sverdlovsk Regional Clinical Hospital №1 and the expert survey of the specialists of the SRCH №1 have been used. Results. Based on the results of sociological, statistical and expert methods, a number of problems have been revealed which prevent from getting specialized medical care within the territorial program of state guarantees to residents of the Sverdlovsk region. Medical understaff at local level and reduced access to specialized medical aid are among them. The article also features ways to solve these problems. Scientific novelty. On the basis of the research the author proposes a new model of providing the population with specialized medical care, which will contribute to improvement of the existing system of specialized medical care in the Sverdlovsk region.