National Centre for Public Health and Pharmacy (NCPHP) (; NNGYK) is a Hungarian centralised budgetary body based in Budapest having been established in 2018 as the legal successor of the State Public Health and Medical Officer Service (ÃÂNTSZ). In December 2018, Hungarian physician CecÃÂlia Müller became the Chief Medical Officer.
With effect from 1 August, 2023, Hungary's National Pharmaceutical and Food Health Institute ceased to existed having been amalgamated with the former National Public Health Centre to form a new body, the NNGYK. CecÃÂlia Müller remains in post as director of the new agency.
The agency is given authority under the Minister of Human Resources 18/2019. (VI. 6.) EMMI instruction on the Organisational and Operational Regulations (SZMSZ) of the National Centre for Public Health.
On 20 July 2023, the Hungarian Government passed Decree, No. 333/2023. (VII. 20.), giving authority for the National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition (OGYEI) to be subsumed into the new central body making the NCPHP the legal successor to the NNK and OGYÃÂI.
The National Centre for Public Health and Pharmacy encompasses the Department of Health Administration, an organisational unit under the direct supervision of the National Chief Medical Officer. The administration body has many roles and functions, such as the authorisation and control of the activities of health care providers. The tasks undertaken on behalf of the National Chief Medical Officer include, but are not limited to: