State Council on the retirement program for rural doctors

The General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Further Strengthening the Implementation of the Construction of the Rural Doctor Team, which points out in Article 8 of the Opinions

Establishing and improving the pension and exit policy for rural doctors:

(16) Improving the pension policy for rural doctors. All localities should support and guide eligible rural doctors to participate in the basic pension insurance for employees in accordance with the regulations. Rural doctors who are not covered by the basic pension insurance for employees may participate in the basic pension insurance for urban and rural residents in their place of domicile.

For rural doctors who have reached the age of 60, localities should take into account the actual situation and adopt various forms of subsidies to further improve the pension treatment of rural doctors.

(xvii) the establishment of rural doctors exit mechanism. Localities should take into account the actual, the establishment of rural doctors exit mechanism. There is a need, the village health office can be rehired rural doctors to continue practicing.

Expanded:

< p>Rural doctors are an important part of China's medical and health services team, is the closest to hundreds of millions of rural residents of the health "guardian", is the development of rural medical and health care, to protect the health of rural residents of an important force. In recent years, especially since the implementation of the new round of reform of the medical and health system, the overall quality of rural doctors has steadily improved, the conditions of service have significantly improved, and the fairness and accessibility of basic medical and health services for rural residents have been continuously improved.

But we also need to see that the rural doctor team is still the weak link in the rural health care system, and it is difficult to adapt to the growing demand for health care services for rural residents. In accordance with the overall requirements of deepening the reform of the medical and health system, in order to further strengthen the construction of the rural doctor team, and effectively build a solid rural medical and health services network, agreed by the State Council, the following views are put forward.

I. General requirements and main objectives

(1) General requirements. Adhere to the basic, strengthen the grassroots, build mechanisms, from China's national conditions and the long-term construction of the basic medical and health system, the reform of the rural doctor service model and incentive mechanism, the implementation and improvement of rural doctor compensation, pension and training policies, strengthen the supervision of medical and health services, stabilize and optimize the rural doctor team, and comprehensively enhance the level of medical and health services at the village level.

(2) Main goals. Through the efforts of about 10 years, strive to make rural doctors overall have secondary school education and above, gradually have practicing assistant physician and above qualification, rural doctors in all aspects of reasonable treatment to get better protection, basically built a higher quality, adapt to the needs of the rural doctors team, to promote the grass-roots level first treatment, the establishment of a hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system, and to better ensure that the rural residents to enjoy the equalization of basic public ****health services and safe, effective, convenient and inexpensive basic medical services.

References:

The State Council - The Implementing Opinions on Further Strengthening the Construction of Rural Doctor Teams