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The article examines the legal status of healthcare professionals in Ukraine, analysing their constitutional and professional rights enshrined in the relevant legal acts. In particular, the article focuses on the rights to proper working conditions, social protection, insurance, benefits and additional guarantees provided for by the Law of Ukraine ‘Fundamentals of Ukrainian Healthcare Legislation’.

The main legislation defining the legal, organizational and socio-economic principles of ensuring the health care of citizens are analyzed, the normative basis for the development of standards and clinical protocols for the treatment of diseases of the organ of vision are considered. The issue of the quality of ophthalmic services was analyzed from the point of view of their compliance with standards, cost efficiency, absence of negative consequences and priority orientation to the needs of the patient.