Formation of mechanisms to encourage private healthcare participation in providing initial healthcare services in Vietnam

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Below is the contents mentioned in Decision 281/QD-TTg dated April 5, 2024, on the implementation plan of Directive 25-CT/TW on continuing to consolidate, improve, and enhance the quality of grassroots healthcare activities in the new situation, issued by the Prime Minister.

Formation of mechanisms to encourage private healthcare participation in providing initial healthcare services in Vietnam

To improve the effectiveness of state management and the coordination responsibility of agencies and organizations in building, implementing, and enforcing policies, laws on grassroots healthcare, the Prime Minister requires ministries, equivalent agencies, government agencies, and local authorities to continue to focus on effectively directing the implementation of the following tasks and solutions:

- Incorporating objectives and targets for grassroots healthcare into annual, 5-year socioeconomic development programs and long-term national, sectoral, and local development strategies.

- Continuing to review, develop policies, laws on grassroots healthcare that are consistent with health insurance policies, laws on medical examination and treatment, pharmacy, disease prevention, food safety, etc., ensuring that grassroots healthcare plays a frontline role in protecting, caring for, and improving people's health.

- Forming and improving mechanisms, policies to encourage private healthcare, organizations, and individuals to participate in providing initial healthcare services, preventive healthcare, and connect with grassroots healthcare in personal health management.

- Completing the organizational structure of grassroots healthcare: commune health stations, ward health stations, town health stations; district-level health centers; school health centers, workplace health centers, agricultural and forestry farms, enterprises, industrial parks, high-tech parks, export processing zones.

+ The activities of commune health stations, ward health stations, and town health stations must be associated with comprehensive personal health management; managing and treating non-communicable diseases, chronic diseases, and community nutrition; implementing medical examinations and treatment activities according to the family medicine model; combining traditional medicine and modern medicine; combining military medicine and civilian medicine; and linking with school health.

+ Implementing unified models of organization and management for district-level health centers managed comprehensively by district-level People's Committees before July 1, 2025; performing the state management functions on health, population, security, and food safety in the area; having the task of managing, guiding, and improving the quality of resources and professional activities of grassroots healthcare.

+ Guiding functions, tasks; researching, developing criteria, and organizing a suitable system of health stations based on population structure, socio-economic conditions, and people's access to healthcare services in each area, locality, not necessarily based on administrative boundaries.

+ Researching, developing criteria, regulations for establishing healthcare facilities in industrial parks, high-tech parks, and export processing zones that are suitable for labor scale, practical conditions, and the healthcare needs of workers.

+ Reviewing, rearranging the school health system associated with grassroots healthcare, ensuring that each school has staff responsible for school health work (dedicated staff or assigned staff with part-time responsibility for school health work), or signing service supply contracts with local healthcare facilities; district-level health centers, commune health stations have assigned officials responsible for school health work.

More details can be found in Decision 281/QD-TTg, taking effect on April 5, 2024.

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