Mission

Strengthen fair market rules in the Italian healthcare sector through enforcing a healthcare integrity system

Goals

The project aimed to enforce a “Healthcare Integrity System” in the Italian healthcare sector to improve the national healthcare sector’s efficiency and to reduce the risk of corruption through transparency, integrity and accountability.

Through Collective Action initiatives involving hospitals, Local Health Authorities (LHA), civil society, and companies, the project intended to raise corruption awareness, educate, implement innovative anti-corruption tools, and test new organisational models.

The main objectives of the project were to:

• Develop specific and innovative measurement, monitoring and assessment tools to identify structural and geographical vulnerabilities.
• Improve the legal and cultural framework through Collective Actions and engagement of all relevant stakeholders in the healthcare sector, to promote good practices of transparency, accountability and integrity and to raise awareness in order to increase civil society’s understanding of the phenomenon of corruption.
• Enhance competences and skills in the field of anti-corruption through specific training courses and coaching for executives and other staff
• Test and implement tools (including whistleblowing), practices, procedures and organizational models designed for the Italian healthcare sector in five selected Local Health Authorities (LHA) in order to reduce the risk of corruption.

Stakeholders

The project was implemented by Transparency International Italy in cooperation with the Centro Ricerche e Studi su Sicurezza e Criminalità (RiSSC), the Fondazione
Centro Studi Investimenti Sociali (CENSIS), and the Istituto per la Promozione dell’Etica in Sanità (ISPE-Sanità). The project was supported by funding from the Siemens Integrity Initiative.