Health Payment Center

The primary health care (hereinafter referred to as PHC) is provided by a PHC medical brigade, which consists of a primary health care doctor and a primary health care nurse and/or assistant of the doctor. These days, family doctors, paediatricians and interns (hereinafter referred to as – family doctors) can work as primary health care doctors.

In this section of the homepage you can learn more about the lists of family doctors who work in the state system, and meanwhile who work in primary health care, and also who register and receive patients. Those doctors are also given certain territories for their basic activities, since a family doctor cannot refuse to register the children or the spouse of his or her present patients in the patient registry, who have been already registered in the patient registry, as well as refuse the patients who dwell on the territory of the doctor’s basic activity.

• Riga Territorial Unit of Health Payment Center comprises doctors coming from Riga city, Riga region and Jurmala.
• Kurzeme Territorial Unit of Health Payment Center comprises doctors coming from the cities and regions of Kuldiga, Liepaja, Ventspils, Saldus, Talsi, and Tukums.
• Latgale Territorial Unit of Health Payment Center comprises doctors coming from the cities and regions of Daugavpils, Rezekne, Kraslava, Ludza, and Preili.
• Zemgale Territorial Unit of Health Payment Center comprises doctors coming from the cities and regions of Jelgava, Bauska, Dobele, Ogre, Aizkraukle, and Jekabpils.
• Vidzeme Territorial Unit of Health Payment Center comprises doctors coming from the cities and regions of Aluksne, Balvi, Cesis, Gulbene, Limbazi, Madona, Valmiera, and Valka.

Hours of work of family doctors

A family doctor together with his or her certified nurse or certified assistant of the doctor provides patients with health care at the place of the particular family doctor’s practice or at workplace (if the present family doctor works in a medical institution), as well as at a patient’s home, operating in accordance with the following regulations:

• patients reception time – not less than 20 hours per week ;
• hours of work for the practice – not less than 40 hours per week;
• hours of work of family doctors in both morning (starting from 8.00 till 13.00) and evening hours (starting from 13.00 till 19.00);
• appointed reception time for patients without prior registration (for acute patients) is available every day – not less than an hour per day;
• appointed reception time for patients with prior registration;
• provision of primary health care services in the course of 5 working days;
• provision of registration of home visits during work days – at least till 15.00.

A family doctor provides a patient with information concerning the primary health care services provided by family doctors, the procedure for receiving those during the given family doctor’s working hours, beyond the working hours and in case of doctors’ replacement or substitution, as well as provides with information concerning opportunities to receive other health care services. 

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