Notice on Village Clinic Management Method (Trial)

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Updated: 2014-07-19

Support measures

43. No occupying, holding back or embezzling funds for village clinic compensation and construction is allowed. All departments are banned from collecting fees outside national regulations from village clinic under any name.

44. Establish and improve village clinic compensation mechanism and performance evaluation system to ensure fair treatment of village clinic personnel:

(1) County-level health and family planning administrative department should clarify essential public health services provided by village clinic and related task load, and offer funds to village clinic based on its actual workload through government purchase;

(2) Incorporate qualified village clinic into the new rural cooperative medical system as designated medical institutes for management, and extend payment by the new rural cooperative medical system to cover general diagnosis and treatment as well as essential drugs costs;

(3) After village clinic implements the essential drug system, all regions should give clinic personnel a fixed amount of special compensation on a par with local village officials. Province (autonomous region and municipality) should come up with specific compensation policy based on individual circumstances;

(4) Encourage all regions to increase compensation for village clinic personnel who have worked for years or at remote and difficult regions. Part of the funds should be allocated at the beginning of every year, and the rest will be settled after performance evaluation.

45. All regions should give support to village clinic in infrastructure construction, equipment and auxiliary facility purchase. Construction land should offer to government-funded or collectively built village clinic for free by local government, and village committee or government-funded health institute in town and townships will run the clinic after it’s completed.

46. Village clinic personnel are encouraged to opt in urban and rural residents’ social pension insurance and receive pensions in accordance with the law. Regions with mature conditions are encouraged to take measures to upgrade retirement for village clinic personnel.

47. All regions should bring into annual fiscal budget the funds needed to improve village clinic’s infrastructure construction, compensate public health service and the essential drug system to ensure money will be in place in time.

Supplementary provisions

48. Health and family planning departments at the county level or above should reward village clinic and related medical staff with outstanding contributions.

49. Health and family planning department should hand out proper legal punishment to village clinic and related medical staff that violate national laws and regulations.

50. Health and family planning departments in provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government should form enforcement details based on the method.

51. The National Health and Family Planning Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine are responsible for interpreting the method.

52. The method goes into effect on the day of printing and distribution.