Breakdown of health pillar expenditure by policy area

Article 3 of the RRF Regulation defines the scope of the instrument and its six pillars, the fifth being ‘Health, and economic, social and institutional resilience, with the aim of, inter alia, increasing crisis preparedness and crisis response capacity’. Although it includes a wide range of policy areas (such as effectiveness of the public administration; long-term care; crisis preparedness; effectiveness of judicial systems; tax measures; fiscal policy and fiscal governance; fraud prevention, to mention but a few), the main policy area covered is ‘Healthcare: strengthening the resilience of the public healthcare system’. As can be seen from the breakdown of expenditure supporting the pillar in the RRF Scoreboad, this area accounts for almost 50 % of the pillar on average in the EU, and ranges from almost all measures being dedicated to it under the pillar, to only a small fraction (Figure 1). The policy area focuses on the reforms and investment needed to address structural weaknesses in health systems across the EU, and to strengthen their capacity, quality and resilience.