Quality of health care as part of the health system reform

Current health reform in all developed countries included management of health care quality. This paper wants to point out the definition, implementation and evaluation of quality in the EU and implementation of health policies in european countries. This paper describes the critical relations in the context of improving the quality of health care, cyclical process of building quality in health care and evaluates the quality of health care. Aim of this paper is to present needs, implementation and evaluation of quality in health care, and compared results of quality management in healthcare rated by the Health Consumer Powerhouse