This growing education and training effort should contribute to fill the replacement needs if these new graduates choose to practice and pursue their careers in Hungary. In addition, incentives targeting primary care providers to improve accessibility to services, for example by strengthening the provision of out-of-hours care, have also been put in place. The overall objective of this health system performance assessment is to enable Hungarian authorities to identify key priority areas for which improvement is needed in tenns of access, responsiveness and quality of care for the population’s care needs. In addition to giving a snapshot of the performance of the health system today, it can be used as a valuable source of information for identifying key challenges in the future.