To reorganize and restructure Public Service Providers in Hanoi, Vietnam

To reorganize and restructure Public Service Providers in Hanoi, Vietnam (Internet image)

To reorganize and restructure Public Service Providers in Hanoi

According to Plan 202/KH-UBND dated June 29, 2024, implementing Resolution 38/NQ-CP issued by the Government of Vietnam for the implementation of Conclusion 62-KL/TW dated October 02, 2023, by the Politburo regarding the implementation of Resolution 19-NQ/TW dated October 25, 2017, on continuing to reform the organizational and management system, improving the quality and efficiency of public service providers, the Hanoi People's Committee issued a plan to implement the contents, including continuing to enhance autonomy, reorganize, and restructure public service providers, specifically:

(1) On reorganizing and restructuring public service providers

- Review and reorganize public service providers according to the objectives, tasks, and solutions of Resolution 19-NQ/TW dated October 25, 2017, ensuring streamlined, effective, and efficient operation. A single public service provider can provide multiple similar public services to significantly reduce the number of units, eliminate overlapping, and address functional redundancies. Restructure or dissolve public service providers that are inefficient or do not meet establishment criteria and conditions.

- Develop plans to review and complete the internal organization of public service providers towards streamlined, significantly reduced intermediate levels; innovate management methods, enhance the management capacity of the units, promote the application of information technology and advanced science - technology, and apply international management standards to ensure improved operational efficiency, contributing to enhancing the quality of public service provision, meeting social and public needs.

- Receive public service providers from Ministries and sectors to be managed by the City for restructuring with similar public service providers in the locality. The reorganization for certain specific sectors is as follows:

+ For district-level multifunctional medical centers: Transfer to district-level People's Committee management.

+ For kindergartens and general education schools: Continue to review, reorganize, and restructure linked with enhancing education quality, forming multi-level general education schools (elementary, middle, and high school) in accordance with the needs and practical conditions of each locality; reasonably adjust class sizes; streamline school points, ensuring the principle of convenience for residents and tailored to the practical conditions of regions and localities.

+ For vocational education institutions (intermediate schools): Review and merge intermediate schools into colleges; dissolve ineffective intermediate and college schools, and reorganize vocational education public service providers in the City to streamline the organizational structure and improve unit efficiency and effectiveness.

- Strengthen the management capacity, responsibility, and exemplary role of leaders and managers in public service providers in reorganizing, restructuring, and enhancing the autonomy of these units; link authority with responsibility, benefits with work efficiency.

(2) On promoting autonomy

- Enhance financial autonomy for public service providers within the management scope and approve the autonomy scheme regarding task performance, organizational structure, and personnel for public service providers, clearly defining roles, functions, tasks, organizational structure, human resources, and financial mechanisms. Progressively increase financial autonomy levels suitable to the service pricing roadmap, aiming for complete financial autonomy for income-generating public service providers, thus fostering stable and sustainable development.

- For public service providers partially covering their recurrent expenditures: Clearly identify the number of employees receiving salaries from service revenue corresponding to the financial autonomy level, and report to the competent authorities for appraisal and approval.

- Implement conversion of eligible economic and other non-healthcare, non-education service providers into joint-stock companies after receiving guidelines from central and specialized ministries.

- Conduct preliminary and final reviews of the conversion of public service providers to autonomous models.

- Strive to achieve self-sufficiency in recurrent expenditure for universities, vocational education institutions (colleges, intermediate schools), hospitals, medical examination and treatment centers (excluding those in specialized fields), public scientific research institutions focused on application and technology transfer, and other economic public service providers (excluding essential public service providers) by 2025.

- Implement partial financial autonomy for preschool and general education based on order mechanisms guided by the Ministry of Finance (Hanoi, Vietnam); apply the service order mechanism for preventive health services, and financial autonomy for healthcare services at district-level multifunctional medical centers.

Tran Trong Tin

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