Procedures for registration of healthcare practice in Vietnam

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1. Rules for registration of healthcare practice in Vietnam

Article 12 of Decree 109/2016/ND-CP stipulates the rules for registration of healthcare practice as follows:

- A healthcare practitioner shall work as a chief physician of only one healthcare facility.

- A healthcare practitioner shall register to work as a person taking charge of only one department of one healthcare facility. A healthcare practitioner must not take charge of more than one department of one or multiple healthcare facilities.

- A healthcare practitioner being the chief physician of a healthcare facility may also take charge of a department of such facility in accordance with the practice scope specified in the issued practice certificate.

- A healthcare practitioner working at a healthcare facility may register to being a chief physician of a healthcare facility which operates overtime.

- A healthcare practitioner working at a state-owned healthcare facility must not register to be the head of a private hospital or a healthcare facility established and operated according to the Law on Enterprise or the Law on Cooperatives unless he/she is appointed by a competent authority to participate in the management and/or direction of a state-owned healthcare facility.

- Any healthcare practitioner having registered to work as a chief physician of a healthcare facility may register to work overtime at another healthcare facility.

- Any healthcare practitioner may register to work at one or multiple healthcare facilities, provided that he/she does not register to work in a period of time at multiple healthcare facilities and the total amount of overtime work does not exceed 200 hours as prescribed in the Labor Code.

The healthcare practitioner must ensure the reasonability of the travel between the registered places of practice.

- If a healthcare practitioner having registered to work at a healthcare facility carries out healthcare activities in an alternate mode between humanitarian healthcare and healthcare on contract between healthcare facilities, he/she is not required to registered to practice at such facilities.

2. Regulations on registration of healthcare practice in Vietnam

The registration of healthcare practice according to Article 13 of Decree 109/2016/ND-CP is as follows:

- The registration of practice shall be carried out by the chief physician of the healthcare facility using the form specified in Annex IV enclosed with this Decree.

- Contents of practice registration:

+ Place of practice: name and address of the healthcare facility for practice;

+ Practice period: time of practice: time and days of a week when the practitioner works at each healthcare facility which ensure the convenience in travelling between the facilities that he/she has registered as prescribed in point a of this clause;

+ Titles and professional positions of the practitioner: the List of persons registering practice must contain their titles (chief physicians or other positions).

- If a practitioner on the abovementioned list is practicing at another healthcare facility, his/her registration of practice must contain time, location and his/her professional position at such facility.

3. Procedures for registration of healthcare practice in Vietnam

Procedures for registration of healthcare practice according to Article 14 of Decree 109/2016/ND-CP are as follows:

(1) Time of practice registration:

- Regarding healthcare facilities applying for operation licenses, the registration of practice for practitioners shall be carried out at the time of application for operation licenses;

- Regarding healthcare facilities having operation licenses which have changes in staff members, within 10 working days from the day on which the change is made, the chief physician working for such healthcare facilities shall notify the authority receiving the application for practice registration specified in clause 2 of Article 14 of Decree 109/2016/ND-CP.

(2) Receipt of application for practice registration in case of change in practitioners:

- The Ministry of Health is responsible for receiving applications for practice registration from healthcare facilities affiliated to the Ministry of Health;

- Departments of Health are responsible for receiving applications for practice registration of healthcare facilities located in the areas under their management, excluding healthcare facilities specified in point a of this clause.

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