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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 article analyzes the mechanism of certification of doctors. A comparative characterization of the legislative framework, which regulates the certification of doctors, was carried out. It was found that the certification, which in its essence should be an assessment of the theoretical knowledge and practical skills of the doctor, in practice is only the submission of documents confirming the obtained points of continuous professional development.

The article is devoted to the scientific analysis of human resources in the healthcare system of Ukraine, particularly in the private sector. The study is specifically concerned with the current staffing of the healthcare system of Ukraine with doctors and junior specialists with medical education. We analyzed the ratio of the main quantitative indicators of medical workforce in healthcare institutions of different forms of ownership, as well as the dynamics of indicators representing involvement of doctors of different specialties in the private healthcare practice.