Scheme for Development of Healthcare Workforce for the 2023-2030 Period in Vietnam

Scheme for Development of Healthcare Workforce for the 2023-2030 Period in Vietnam (Internet image) 

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On April 8, 2024, the Minister of Health issued Decision 869/QD-BYT approving the "Scheme for Development of Healthcare Workforce for the 2023-2030 Period, with a Vision to 2050."

Scheme for Development of Healthcare Workforce for the 2023-2030 Period in Vietnam

The objectives of the development plan are as follows:

- General objective:

Develop an adequate healthcare workforce with quality, professional competence, and ethical standards, with a rational structure and distribution to contribute to improving the quality of healthcare, protection, and promotion of people's health, aiming for equity, efficiency, development, and international integration.

- Specific objectives:

+ Develop a healthcare workforce with an adequate quantity, rational structure, and distribution, especially in remote, mountainous, border, island, and areas with a large population of ethnic minorities, and in some less attractive and difficult-to-recruit specialties.

+ Improve the professional competence and ethical standards of the healthcare workforce to meet the development needs of society and international integration.

+ Enhance the management capacity and efficient utilization of healthcare human resources.

- Vision until 2050:

Healthcare workforce must meet the requirements of a modern healthcare system, facilitate international integration, and improve the quality of healthcare services to be on par with advanced countries in the region, meeting the increasingly diverse health protection, care, and improvement needs of the people.

- Healthcare workforce vacancies per 10,000 population:

Strengthening state management of healthcare workforce development in Vietnam

* Develop strategies, policies, and legislative documents:

- Continue to improve the development of professional titles, output standards, and professional competence standards in the healthcare sector as a basis for efficient training and utilization of healthcare human resources after training, and for assessing the competency of medical examination and treatment.

- Improve the institutions and regulations of laws related to specialized training of healthcare human resources to innovate healthcare workforce training, standardize training models in line with the National Qualifications Framework, and facilitate international integration. Promote decentralization and autonomy for training institutions as regulated by law.

- Establish mechanisms and policies to encourage economic entities to participate in healthcare workforce training.

- Improve and submit for authorized issuance a Government Decree regulating specialized training in the health field, and establish and issue a list of specialized training programs.

* Enhance the healthcare workforce management information system:

- Build a database on healthcare human resources, especially in the healthcare and preventive healthcare systems, to assess the current situation and develop specific policies for the nationwide development of healthcare human resources, as well as for difficult areas, industries, and regions with recruitment challenges.

- Promote the application of information technology in analyzing and forecasting the demand for healthcare human resources as a basis for training, retraining, and developing the skills of the healthcare workforce.

* Ensure funding for human resource development:

- The state prioritizes reasonable investment in training and developing healthcare human resources, especially in difficult areas and industries with recruitment challenges.

- Enhance socialization and attract various sources of funding to increase investment in healthcare human resource training institutions.

- Review and implement a rational self-autonomy mechanism for training institutions, gradually increasing legitimate revenue from training and scientific research activities.

- Have financial support policies for students from difficult backgrounds; have financial policies to attract, support, and motivate students to pursue certain difficult-to-attract specialties.

Nguyen Ngoc Que Anh

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