Search for: [Abstrakt = "Benchmarking and outsourcing belong to management methods which, when applied systematically, improve functioning conditions of companies, including health care centres. These methods have the following advantages\: they improve effectiveness, lower costs, improve quality of services provided and, at the same time, help achieve a better position on a competing market of medical services. This paper presents the essence, aim, and methods of implementation of benchmarking and outsourcing in health care centres."]