On May 18, the Ministry of Health held a conference to disseminate the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment No. 15/2023/QH15. The conference took place online and connected online with more than 1,000 points nationwide.
Emphasizing at the conference, Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan stated that the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment No. 15 was passed by the National Assembly on January 9, 2023, replacing the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment No. 40/2009, effective from January 1, 2024, with many new points demonstrating progress in access, creating an important legal corridor for the field of medical examination and treatment from the perspective of patient-centeredness, fairness, efficiency, quality and development.
The Deputy Minister of Health added that the revised Law on Medical Examination and Treatment has also removed some obstacles, resolved shortcomings, adjusted some contents to suit the actual context, clearly demonstrating priority policies in medical examination and treatment.
"One of the important new points regarding practitioner management is that the Law stipulates that the National Medical Council will conduct an exam to assess practitioners' capacity before granting a practice license," said Deputy Minister Tran Van Thuan.
The law also added a number of subjects including outpatient emergency workers, clinical nutritionists, and clinical psychologists to the subjects required to be granted a practice license.
Prof. Dr. Tran Van Thuan - Deputy Minister of Health, Vice Chairman in charge of and executive director of the National Medical Council spoke at the conference.
At the same time, the law also stipulates that the term of the practice license is 5 years, after which the license must be renewed after meeting the requirements for continuous updating of medical knowledge.
Deputy Minister Tran Van Thuan emphasized that the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment No. 15 stipulates a number of contents on the autonomy mechanism of public medical examination and treatment facilities, and specifically regulates the prices of medical examination and treatment. In particular, state medical examination and treatment facilities are allowed to decide the prices of medical examination and treatment services upon request and must declare and publicly post the prices of medical examination and treatment services upon request.
At the same time, specify some contents on socialization in medical examination and treatment activities, forms of attracting social resources in medical examination and treatment activities; management and control of medical examination and treatment costs; specify responsibilities for establishing and operating information systems on management of medical examination and treatment activities... In addition, add some contents on ensuring security and order for medical examination and treatment facilities and practitioners...
The Deputy Minister of Health added that, as assigned by the Prime Minister, relevant ministries and branches are developing documents and projects to provide detailed guidance on some contents of the implementation of the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment.
In particular, the Ministry of Health is responsible for the main focal point for developing Decrees and Circulars detailing a number of articles of the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment. The Ministry of National Defense has also been assigned to develop a Decree detailing a number of contents guiding the implementation of the Law.
In order for the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment to be implemented according to the roadmap, the leaders of the Ministry of Health requested that the departments and agencies under the Ministry of Health urgently develop the content of the Decree, Circular, Decision, and assigned projects to ensure the right progress to be able to implement the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment as soon as the Law takes effect from January 1, 2024.
Relevant ministries, branches, agencies, organizations, units and localities are requested to actively participate in contributing opinions in the process of drafting guiding documents and related projects, ensuring that detailed guiding regulations are feasible, appropriate, of good quality and in accordance with the provisions of the Law.
The Deputy Minister requested the Departments of Health of provinces and cities, hospitals under the Ministry of Health, public and private medical examination and treatment facilities to develop plans and continue to disseminate the contents of the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment to ensure that practitioners, organizations and individuals participating in medical examination and treatment practice correctly understand and comply with the legal provisions on Medical Examination and Treatment ...
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