This year, 12 pilot regional medical centers will be expanded
Top-level design for high-quality development of China's public hospitals is out
"The construction of national medical centers and regional medical centers has become an important engine to promote the country's medical progress. . Build provincial high-level hospitals to reduce cross-provincial medical treatment." On June 7, Li Bin, deputy director of the National Health and Health Commission, said at a policy briefing at the State Council Information Office that China has turned to the stage of high-quality development, accelerating the expansion of high-quality medical resources and regional balanced layout, and striving to achieve, through five years of efforts, the development of public hospitals from the expansion of the scale of the shift to quality and efficiency, the mode of operation from the rough management to the refinement of the management of the resource allocation from the focus on the material elements to pay more attention to the talent and technology The first time I saw this, it was a very good thing that I was so happy.
A few days ago, the General Office of the State Council on the promotion of high-quality development of public hospitals views officially issued, the high-quality development of China's public hospitals into a new stage. Opinions pointed out that to promote national medical progress as the goal, relying on existing resources to plan and set up national medical centers, clinical medical research centers, regional medical centers (including traditional Chinese medicine, the same below) and traditional Chinese medicine inheritance and innovation centers, the formation of key clinical specialties, focusing on diagnosis and treatment of difficult and critical illnesses, such as technological research. At the same time, focusing on diseases with high mortality rates and high transfer rates in provincial areas, strengthening the technical and talent support of national high-level hospitals to provincial hospitals, accelerating the mending of short boards of specialized specialties, enhancing the diagnosis and treatment capacity of provincial areas, and reducing the number of cross-provincial medical consultations.
In this regard, Sun Zhicheng, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission's social department, introduced that the pilot work of regional medical center construction, in short, is to select a number of national high-level hospitals as output hospitals from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other top-level high-quality health care resources are relatively rich in the region, to the provinces where high-quality health care resources are very scarce, populated, and with a weak foundation, to build a branch or a sub-center and other branches. branches such as sub-centers.
"There is an initial improvement in the flow of medical care." Sun Zhicheng said the important purpose of regional medical centers is to reduce cross-provincial medical care and enjoy national-level medical care close to home. From the monitoring data now, the pilot program has played a significant role in retaining local and neighboring patients. He cited the example of a 63.1 percent drop in visits to Beijing Children's Hospital and a 51.3 percent drop in hospitalizations across Henan province in 2020 after the opening of Beijing Children's Hospital Zhengzhou.
Sun Zhicheng revealed that the construction of regional medical centers, this year will be in the original eight pilot provinces on the basis of further expanding the scope of the pilot, an increase of 12 pilot in the central and western high-quality resources. By the end of the 19th National Congress, the construction of regional medical centers will cover all provinces.
"We have always taken improving the people's sense of access to medical care as one of the important goals of high-quality development of public hospitals." Jiao Yahui, director of the Medical Affairs Bureau of the National Health Commission, said increasing the supply of high-quality medical resources, innovating the model of medical services, and building a hospital culture oriented to patients' needs are targeted to meet the people's multi-level and diversified medical needs.
Sun Zhicheng said he is striving to basically build a high-quality, efficient and integrated medical and healthcare service system with a complete system, reasonable layout, clear division of labor, complementary functions, close collaboration, efficient operation and resilience by 2025. Including strengthening the construction of national, provincial, municipal and county-level disease prevention and control system, the construction of national major infectious disease prevention and control bases, national emergency medical rescue bases, prevention and treatment of the combination of a strong public **** health system. (Reporter Liang Qian)