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Mission, vision and strategy

Mission

Public health protection and support on the basis of effective regulation governing areas within the powers of SÚKL, based on state-of-the-art scientific and research knowledge. SÚKL fulfils its mission within the scope of powers stipulated by legal regulations, through the regulation of medicinal products and medical devices, in order to safeguard their quality, efficacy, and safety in clinical practice.

Vision

SÚKL as an independent competent, professionally sound, economically stable regulatory authority respected both nationally and internationally, with a high degree of transparency, flexibility, predictability of decision-making practice, and independence, governed by high standards of quality of work.

SÚKL undertakes to continue to abide by and increase the quality of procedures entrusted thereto by legal regulations. It shall be an institution that:

  1. avails of a broad range of objective information about medicinal products and medical devices, available both to professionals and to the general public;
  2. through its surveillance activities, enforces compliance with legal regulations in the sphere of medicinal products and medical devices, tissues, cells, blood, and cannabis for medical use;
  3. avails of qualified, motivated, and impartial internal as well as external professionals;
  4. employs an active approach to process automation, centralisation of shared data and electronisation of input data;
  5. uses functional and secure information systems with a high degree of agenda electronisation, effectively increasing the effectiveness and productivity of work;
  6. is an active partner of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic in the area of drafting legal regulations, taking part in discussions concerning legislation and standards, not only within the scope of its powers, but also in areas associated therewith;
  7. openly communicates with other state administration bodies, professional organisations, and other external entities and provides professional and scientific consultations in the area covered by its powers;
  8. actively communicates and provides information to the general public;
  9. is a respected regulatory authority both in the Czech Republic and within the EU;
  10. takes an active part in international activities relevant to its powers.

Strategic objectives

SÚKL’s primary strategic objectives are based on the need to fulfil the mission and achieve the vision, availing of opportunities and strengths and eliminating threats and weaknesses identified through SÚKL’s SWOT analysis.
The vision will be achieved through the fulfilment of the following strategic objectives:

  • Objective 1. SÚKL as a competitive and prestigious agency within the EU, with scientific and regulatory history for public health support and protection
  • Objective 2. To enhance processes ensuring availability and sufficient amounts of pharmaceuticals for public health protection
  • Objective 3. Well-defined personnel policy and employee education not only in purely expert areas but also in the area of health protection, that is stable in the long term and comprehensible for the employees, resulting in personnel stability
  • Objective 4. High transparency of decision-making processes in the sphere of pharmaceuticals and medical devices based upon state-of-the-art scientific and expert knowledge and data from clinical practice
  • Objective 5. Creation of conditions resulting in electronisation of processes associated with the safeguarding of information about the lifecycle of pharmaceuticals for human use, medical devices, and other activities of SÚKL and increasing information security and protection from cybernetic threats
  • Objective 6. Increased quality and effectiveness of SÚKL’s surveillance activities
  • Objective 7. SÚKL as the primary source of professional, clear, and verified information about authorised medicinal products, notified medical devices, and reimbursements of these products or devices
  • Objective 8. Achievement of sustained stability in the asset management and funding of SÚKL’s activities and safeguarding of resources for the implementation and fulfilment of SÚKL’s strategic objectives
  • Objective 9. Strengthening of SÚKL’s cooperation in European organisations and their task forces, preparation for the 2022 Czech Presidency