Opinions on speeding up non-public investment in health development

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Updated: 2014-06-10

d. Improve support policy

In accordance with relevant laws, regulations and policies and under the unified leadership of the local government, health and family planning and traditional Chinese medicine administrative departments at all levels should strengthen coordination and communication with related departments to allow medical insurance cover the non-public medical institutions, improve planning and land use, optimize investment and financing guidance policy, improve finance and tax price policy, and adopt market-adjusted price for non-public medical institutions services. They should also let non-public medical institutionss play a role in basic public health and medical services and establish and improve the government purchasing social services mechanism.

e. Speed up approval process

All regions should speed up the implementation of equal policies for both public and non-public medical institutionss in examination and approval, operation and development. No discriminatory restrictions outside the laws and regulations are allowed. They should speed up and streamline the approval process for qualified non-public medical institutionss to raise efficiency.

4. Help non-public medical institutionss raise service abilities

a. Support major specialty construction Health and family planning and traditional Chinese medicine administrative departments at all levels shall strengthen specialized clinical abilities of non-public medical institutionss, and take non-public medical institutionss into overall planning of major specialized clinical strength building. Non-public medical institutionss should receive equal treatment in fund allocation when undertaking major national and provincial specialized projects.

b. Support talent introduction and training

Departments should incorporate the need of non-public medical institutionss for professional talents into the local talent introduction overall plan, and give non-public medical institutionss equally favorable policies in talent introduction. They should treat non-public medical institutionss on an equal footing in high-level talent introduction, continued medical education, general practitioner, resident doctor standardization and new technology skills trainings. They should encourage non-public medical institutionss to extract education training funds.

c. Allow doctors to have multi-sited license

Departments should formulate standard guidance on multi-sited practice and clarify conditions, registration, practice and responsibilities of multi-sited practice for doctors. Health and family planning administrative departments should promptly take care of qualified doctor’s needs and allow them to work among medical institutionss in an orderly fashion. They should explore the linking mechanism between public and non-public medical institutionss in seniority calculation, public institution insurance and personnel employment. They should create favorable conditions for famous old traditional Chinese medicine doctors to conduct multi-sited practice.