MILESTONES AND PITFALLS IN STRATEGIC PLANNING OF HEALTHCARE IN CAPITAL CITY IN TRANSITION.

A little is known about healthcare sector within Strategic plan of Kyiv, which is capital of Ukraine and a city in transition. The aim of this study was to investigate and evaluate implementation of strategic plan for Kyiv with the focus on healthcare sector. There were evaluated Strategic plan for Kyiv, Concept for healthcare development from the Department of Healthcare, City's target program "Health of Kyivers". Data analyses showed 13 (45%) out of 29 strategic initiatives were not implemented for healthcare sector. Data from statistical analyses indicated that low performance from Department of Healthcare was similar for all operational goals. Our findings demonstrated low implementation rate of strategic initiatives within the healthcare sector of city's Strategic plan. Possible causes of low strategic performance could be due to weak institutional relations between top and low executive levels, as well as inconsistency in strategic documents, stuff turnover.