Developing and growing the healthcare workforce puts the focus on where the work is done

Developing and expanding the healthcare workforce puts the focus on rural areas and communities.

The purpose of this is to increase support for the training of talents at the grassroots level, in remote areas and in shortage of specialties, and to narrow the gap in the allocation of talents between urban and rural areas, regions and specialties. It promotes the directed training of rural health talents, implements a system for practicing physicians to serve at the grassroots level, and encourages physicians to go to the grassroots, remote areas, areas with scarce medical resources, and other medical institutions in need of multi-disciplinary practice. Rural doctors are being incentivized to participate in academic education and to qualify as practicing (assistant) physicians, and the training of assistant general practitioners is being promoted.

At the same time, it is also necessary to strengthen the standardized training of residents in general practice, implement transfer training for general practitioners, and expand the pool of general practitioners. Strengthen the synergy between medicine and education, implement post-graduation education and continuing education, and improve the system of standardized residency training. Implement a program for high-level medical talents and train a number of leading talents. Implement a project to cultivate talents with specialties in traditional Chinese medicine.

Measures to Strengthen Urban and Rural Primary Healthcare Services

Strengthening the standardized construction of township health centers and community health service centers, developing community hospitals, and improving the setup of clinical departments and equipment. Strengthening the diagnosis and treatment of common and frequent diseases, public **** health, health management and traditional Chinese medicine service capacity, strengthen the health management of major chronic diseases, carry out the residents' mental health guidance, enhance the township health centers second level and the following routine surgery and other medical services capacity.

According to the distribution of population, optimize the setting of community health service stations and village health offices, build central village health offices, and for villages with small populations can be convenient for the masses to see a doctor and get medical treatment through medical tours, extended services in neighboring (joint) villages, and services of higher-level medical and health institutions stationed in villages. Innovative rural health care personnel use mechanism, strengthen the integration of health care personnel in the county equipped with and management, the conditions of the place can be used through the county and township and township employment village use and other ways to improve the attractiveness of rural health care positions.