Completed/terminated procedure

Improve the access of vulnerable groups in remote and rural areas to professional health care and social support by creating innovative models of community-based medical and social services.

Piloting a teleassistance service with a view to ensuring continuous monitoring of the health and social status of people with chronic diseases and disabilities, aged 50+, living in remote and rural areas;

Developing an emergency response system, facilitating interinstitutional communication and ensuring need-based access to services;

Setting up multidisciplinary teams of health-care and social-service experts trained for the needs of the tele-assistance services;

Extending the scope of the existing BRC Home Care network by establishing three new Home Care Centres in Vidin and Montana districts, as well as mobile units to the existing centres in Vratsa District, thereby increasing the number of beneficiaries;

Designing innovative and flexible training programmes awarding qualification in the provision of integrated medical and social services to health-care and social-service experts;

Developing effective models for social inclusion of Roma and other ethnic minorities through provision of quality vocational training and employment opportunities in the area of integrated community-based health and social services;

Setting up volunteer teams in support of the homecare centres and tele-assistance services through provision of adequate training and design of a communication and coordination system;

Developing a platform bringing together service providers and other stakeholders for joint work on the design of quality and sustainable integrated medical and social services for different target groups.