Opinions on speeding up non-public investment in health development

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Updated: 2014-06-10

d. Help raise academic status

Departments should coordinate and support non-profit hospitals that have good management ability and professional and technical skills to be teaching facilities for medical colleges and universities. They should encourage large public medical institutionss to support non-public medical institutionss. Medical associations, academic organizations and medical institution review committees at various levels should take in non-public medical institutions personnel on equal terms and expand their proportion. They should safeguard opportunities for non-public medical institutionss to play a role in industry associations that match their academic and professional strength.

e. Support informatization construction Departments should support non-public medical institutions in speeding up connectivity with medical security and public medical institutions information systems. Health and family planning and traditional Chinese medicine administrative departments should release various health resource allocation plans as well as industrial policy and market demand information. They should smooth the way for non-public medical institutions to acquire relevant policy information, and ensure public and non-public medical institutions have equal rights and interests in accessing policy and information.

5. Strengthen non-public medical institutions supervision

a. Ensure medical service quality

Non-public medical institutionss should be brought into the unified medical quality control and evaluation system and receive equal treatment in medical technology and clinical application admittance management. Health and family planning and traditional Chinese medicine administrative departments should earnestly fulfill their responsibilities in supervising and standardizing non-public medical institution’s services to raise service quality. They should conduct innovations to step up supervision of non-public medical institutions. At the same time, industrial associations and social organizations should play a role in supervising non-public medical institution service quality and fees, as well as operations. They should build a unified three-dimensional regulatory system to ensure medical quality and safety. They should crack down on all kinds of violations and set up a “blacklist” system.

b. Effectively protect medical law and order

Departments should bring non-public medical institutions into the medical dispute prevention and treatment management system. When a major medical dispute happens in a non-public medical institutions, local health and family planning and traditional Chinese medicine administrative departments should work with the public security department to actively guide and support disposal work to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of both doctors and patients and maintain diagnosis and treatment order. They should encourage non-public medical institutions to participate in medical liability and accident insurance.

c. Promote industrial self-regulation and medical ethics construction

 Departments should support and encourage relevant associations and societies to offer industrial guidance to non-public medical institutionss, strengthen self-discipline, and maintain the legitimate rights and interests of non-public medical institutions. They should support non-public medical institutions in establishing the independent industrial association. They should guide non-public medical institutions to enhance their awareness of social responsibilities. They should urge them to put patients first, strengthen medical ethics construction, carry forward the spirit to heal the wounded and save the dying, and strive to build a harmonious doctor-patient relationship.

National Health and Family Planning Commission

State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Dec 30, 2013