[Topical issues of the primary medical and sanitary care].

Issues related with transforming the functioning of the country's health care on the basis of the model of general practitioner (GP) are discussed in the article. It is concluded that there is need in a full-scale preparatory activity comprising both the optimization of the internal structural-and-functional relations and the ensuring of the health care readiness as whole, i.e. evolving the activity of its elements in the direction of an integrally functioning system.