Staff training obligations and 2026 sanctions

SKS and the Healthcare Quality Regulation

Institutions organize their work in line with SKS, enter their self-assessment results into the Ministry's system and prepare action plans for unmet standards. The Training Management section of SKS Hospital 6.1 covers training needs analysis, the training plan, general and department orientation for every new employee, in-service training and measuring training effectiveness.

Training delivered must be recorded and kept in the personnel file, and training records must be accessible from the personnel file. The quality regulation sets no fines; a low score, however, creates an action plan obligation.

Private Hospitals Regulation

Inspections use the Annex 2 inspection, inquiry and administrative sanctions form; the form was renewed by the amendment of 29.08.2026. Question 129 on the form asks whether a specialist has been assigned responsibility for managing and training operating room staff.

The sanction for this question is graduated: on the first finding, an administrative fine of one-thousandth of the previous month's gross service revenue, not less than TRY 180,617, and 30 days to comply; on the second finding, the fine is doubled; on the third, outpatient clinic activity is suspended for 5 days.

Patient and staff safety, infection control

The Regulation on Ensuring Patient and Employee Safety requires secondary and tertiary care institutions to provide patient and staff safety training to all employees; the institution's most senior manager is responsible for implementation. The Infection Control Regulation for Inpatient Healthcare Facilities tasks the infection control committee with ensuring continuous in-service training for staff.

Neither regulation sets a separate fine; gaps surface through quality assessments and general inspection mechanisms.

Medical waste and radiation safety

Healthcare facilities must periodically train staff involved in medical waste management and employ staff holding a Vocational Qualification Certificate in the relevant field. Radiation workers and staff likely to be in radiation areas are trained at regular intervals; the radiation protection program includes a training plan, and training records are kept.

In radiation protection training, the certificate of achievement is valid for 5 years. Breaches bring administrative fines under Laws No. 2872 and 7381; the 2026 amounts are in the summary table.

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Health data is special-category personal data. Decision 2018/10 of the Personal Data Protection Board lists regular training on the Law and data security for employees involved in processing such data among the adequate measures. For breaches of Art. 12, administrative fines of TRY 256,357–17,092,242 apply in 2026.

Training records in lawsuits

A private hospital is liable for the acts of its physicians and staff: in contract, for its auxiliaries; in tort, as their employer. To escape liability, it must prove it exercised the necessary care. If a workplace accident results from a breach of OHS legislation, SGK recovers its payments from the employer.

Signed and dated training records are important evidence in meeting this burden of proof; such records must be kept anyway under the OHS training regulation and SKS.