Full text of the latest Law on Medical Examination and Treatment in Vietnam? What are the outstanding new provisions of the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment of Vietnam effective from January 1, 2024?
- Has there been the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment of Vietnam effective from January 1, 2024?
- New highlights of the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment of Vietnam?
- What are the principles in medical examination and treatment under the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment of Vietnam?
Has there been the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment of Vietnam effective from January 1, 2024?
On February 3, 2023, the Office of the President held a press conference to announce the Order of the Acting President announcing the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment, which was just passed by the XV National Assembly at the 2nd Extraordinary Session.
According to that, the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment of Vietnam has a layout of 12 chapters and 121 Articles, specifically:
Chapter I: General Provisions
Chapter II: Rights and obligations of the patient
Chapter III: Medical examination and treatment practitioners
Chapter IV: Medical examination and treatment establishments
Chapter V: Technical expertise
Chapter VI: Medical examination and treatment with traditional medicine and combining traditional medicine with modern medicine
Chapter VII: Humane medical examination and treatment, non-profit medical examination and treatment, technical transfer of medical examination and treatment
Chapter VIII: Application of new techniques, New methods in medical examination and treatment and clinical trials in medical examination and treatment
Chapter IX: Technical errors
Chapter X: Conditions for ensuring medical examination and treatment activities
Chapter XI: Mobilizing and mobilizing resources for medical examination and treatment in case of natural disasters, catastrophes, group A infectious diseases or emergencies.
Chapter XII: Terms of Implementation
What are the outstanding new provisions of the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment of Vietnam effective from January 1, 2024? (Image from the Internet)
New highlights of the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment of Vietnam?
Some basic new contents in the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment of Vietnam are as follows:
- Improve practice skills, strengthen operation management of practitioners;
- Improve the quality of service provision of medical examination and treatment establishments, and enhance people's access to services with medical examination and treatment services;
- Renovate a number of regulations related to conditions to ensure the performance of medical examination and treatment activities...
In which, the notable contents include:
Regulations on practice licenses in Articles 26 to 35 of the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment of Vietnam:
- The law stipulates the expansion of practice subjects; change from the issuance of a license to practice according to professional qualifications to the provision of licensing to practice according to professional titles
- Changing the method of granting a practice license from the granting of a practice license through review of the application file to the requirement that the practice capacity be examined and assessed before the practice license is granted;
- Regulations on practicing licenses valid for 5 years and regulations on updating medical knowledge are one of the conditions for renewing the practice license.
New regulations on practice registration in Section 4 Chapter III of the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment of Vietnam:
- Foreigners who have long-term practice in Vietnam and provide medical examination and treatment for Vietnamese people must use Vietnamese fluently in medical examination and treatment, except for some cases of cooperation in exchange of experts, transfer of technology and training;
- Apply electronic prescription, electronic medical records and this information must be connected to the Information System on management of medical examination and treatment activities to control and monitor the quality of service provision of the practitioner and link medical examination and treatment results between medical examination and treatment establishments.
Regulations on the quality of service provision of medical examination and treatment establishments in Article 60 of the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment of Vietnam:
- Supplementing regulations that require establishments to self-assess the quality of medical examination and treatment according to a set of basic quality standards promulgated by the Ministry of Health on an annual basis and must update the self-assessment results to An information system on management of medical examination and treatment activities to serve as a basis for inspection, assessment, as well as publicizing information on the quality of medical examination and treatment establishments.
Regulations on remote medical examination and treatment in Article 80 of the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment of Vietnam:
- Develop telemedicine to contribute to achieving universal health coverage by improving patients' access to quality, cost-effective health services, anytime, anywhere, especially for less serious, chronic diseases that require long-term and regular care...
What are the principles in medical examination and treatment under the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment of Vietnam?
This provision is recorded in Article 3 of the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment of Vietnam as follows:
- Respect, protect and treat patients equally and without stigma and discrimination towards patients.
- Prioritize medical examination and treatment for patients in emergency status, children under 6 years old, pregnant women, people with extremely severe disabilities, people with severe disabilities, and people aged full 75 years or older. People with meritorious services to the revolution are suitable to the characteristics of medical examination and treatment establishments.
- Respect, cooperate and protect practitioners and other people performing their duties at medical examination and treatment establishments.
- Timely implement and comply with regulations on technical expertise.
- Comply with the code of professional ethics in medical examination and treatment practice promulgated by the Minister of Health.
- Equality and fairness among health facilities.
The 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment of Vietnam takes effect January 1, 2024.
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