For several reasons, the health care system of the Republic of Croatia represents an immense challenge from the standpoint of management, namely of the health management. One of the main reasons is its financial size which makes it a serious consumer of public sector finances, having a major impact on the tenability of public public finances. Moreover, a major problem is that the quality of health care is not automatically guaranteed by health benefits. Users of health care services in Croatia expect a high level of health care, regardless of whether public finances in Croatia are sufficient to provide such a service. Furthermore, health consumption is in a constant increase for the continuous aging of the people and technological development in the health industry. Healthcare management has the difficult task of ensuring the functioning of all parts of the system, without obstacles, with managing human resorces, allocating them to the right positions, and making use of rational spending of funds, to achieve the objectives set out therein.