This report was managed and prepared by Marion Devaux and Ekin Dagistan. Aimé Nun contributed with research assistance. The authors wish to thank Stefano Scarpetta, Mark Pearson, Francesca Colombo, Frederico Guanais, Eric Sutherland, Katarina Vujovic and Maciej Lis from the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, Vincenzo Spiezia and Limor Shmerling Magazanik from the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, and Mike Cressey from the Directorate for Public Governance. Thanks also go to Natalie Limbasan and Diego Piedra-Trejos from the Directorate for Legal Affairs, to Lucy Hulett for editorial input, to Isabelle Vallard and Sahnur Soykan for administrative assistance and to Guillaume Haquin and Anna Marie Dreyfus for resource management support.
This report has benefited from the expertise and material received from many health officials, health professionals, civil society and other health experts that the OECD review team interviewed during a fact-finding mission in Bucharest on 25‑28 June 2024. The report also reflects information provided in November 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 May 2024 and updated in 2025. It also benefited from comments of the Romanian authorities and experts who reviewed earlier drafts.
The OECD review team thanks officials at: the Ministry of Health; the National Authority for Quality Management in Healthcare; the National Health Insurance House; the Ministry of Finance; the Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices of Romania; the National Institute of Public Health; the National Institute of Health Services Management; representatives of professional organisations and patient’s organisations, as well as the OECD Accession team from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.