This report was managed and prepared by Candan Kendir and José Manuel Jerez Pombo. The authors gratefully acknowledge Francesca Colombo for providing overall guidance and close supervision throughout the development of this report. The authors thank Stefano Scarpetta, Mark Pearson and Frederico Guanais for their valuable guidance, Eric Sutherland, Sebastian Königs and Sabine Vuik from the OECD Directorate of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, Vincenzo Spiezia from the Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation, Laura Volker from the Directorate for Public Governance, and Akane Nozawa from the Directorate for Legal Affairs for their input. Thanks also go to Lucy Hulett and Min Woo Eun for editorial input, to Sahnur Soykan for administrative assistance and to Anne Marie Dreyfus and Guillaume Haquin for resource management support.
This report has benefited from the expertise and material received from many health officials, healthcare professionals, civil society and other health experts that the OECD review team interviewed during a factfinding mission on 17‑19 March 2025. The report also reflects information provided in February 2023 to the Accession Survey on Health Data Capacity, the Accession Review Policy Questionnaire, as well as the regular OECD Health Data Questionnaires received in February 2025.
The authors thanks officials at the National Assembly, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Ministry of eGovernance, Ministry of Finance, National Centre of Public Health and Analyses, National Statistical Institute, National Health Insurance Fund, Bulgarian Drug Agency, Executive Agency “Medical Supervision”, National Council on Prices and Reimbursement of Medicinal Products, Regional Health Inspectorates, representatives at the University General Hospital for Active Treatment “Alexandrovska” and University General Hospital for Active Treatment “St. Anna”, representative/s from the Centre for Comprehensive Services for Children with Disabilities and Chronic Diseases in the city of Burgas, Bulgarian Medical Association, Bulgarian Dental Association, Bulgarian Association of Healthcare Professionals in Nursing, National Association of General Practitioners in Bulgaria, Association for the Development of Bulgarian Healthcare, Information Services JSC, Commission for Personal Data Protection and Medical University of Sofia.