The article, on the basis of experience of development of the Republic's first territorial system of medical quality management, presents basic organizational systemic principles of building quality management of medical activity and organizational model of system functioning. The listing of criteria and indices of assessing effectiveness of territorial system of managing quality and safety of medical activity is presented too. The purpose of developing such a system is formulated. The evidence base for actuality and feasibility of its organization is presented.
Keywords: criteria and indices; effectiveness; evaluation; health care system; management; medical activity; quality; quality and safety; risk category; safety; system.