Minimum standards for national hospital quality awards in Vietnam

Le Hai

14:50, 29/12/2020

Recently, the Ministry of Health of Vietnam has issued the Circular No. 25/2020/TT-BYT prescribing national hospital quality awards.

According to the Circular No. 25/2020/TT-BYT of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, minimum standards for national hospital quality awards include:

- The hospital must obtain at least 4,00 points in the hospital quality assessment performed by a regulatory authority according to the Hospital quality criteria and none of the criteria is assessed at level 3 within at least 02 consecutive years by the time of consideration;

- The hospital has developed the system for compulsory and voluntary reporting on medical events in accordance with regulations on prevention of medical events in health facilities for 2 years or more. It has not committed any medical errors causing death according to conclusions of the Professional Council within at least 02 consecutive years by the time of consideration;

- The hospital has conducted patient and healthcare worker satisfaction surveys and achieved at least 85% of patient and healthcare worker satisfaction;

- The hospital has won at least a topic-specific award within the same consideration year (this standard shall not be applied in the first consideration in 2021).

View more details at the Circular No. 25/2020/TT-BYT of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, effective from February 15, 2021.

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