Ensuring sustainability of healthcare system, its adaptation to new challenges and threats during the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictive measures imposed by international community in current political situation, achieving key goals of state programs in public health protection and promotion the health of the population of the Russian Federation require comprehensive interaction of public authorities with expert and civil society in order to exchange knowledge and search for the most effective management and organizational decisions. In this article, the authors consider the activities of a large-scale public movement of the ALL-RUSSIAN NATIONAL FRONT aimed at improving domestic healthcare through civil control over the implementation of the National project «Healthcare», the authors also present the results of a sociological study among patients and medical workers on the accessibility of medical care and staffing of the healthcare system, as well as identify the main problems of personnel shortage and offer expert proposals on how to solve it. This allowed us to draw a conclusion about the important role of social movements in the formation of state social policy in public health and healthcare.

public associations, social movements, public control, health problems, healthcare system, personnel shortage, ALL-RUSSIAN NATIONAL FRONT, ONF.