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The article concerns the aspects of the local government responsibility for health care with the special importance of primary care development. The authoress identified recent events connected with the decentralization of health care powers as well as those which influenced current functions of primary health. To identify the real problems of primary care functioning and its relation with local authority and National Health Found (the payer institution) the Ministry of Health, Supreme Chamber of Control and The Central Statistical Office documents have been used. Also the legal analysis concerning the aspects of local government and primary care qualifications in the health care system has been done.