Interim Measures for the Management of Individual Practitioners and Joint Medical and Healthcare Institutions in Shaanxi Province

Chapter I General Provisions Article 1 In order to strengthen the management of individual doctors and joint medical and health institutions (i.e., clinics, hospitals, maternity hospitals, midwifery stations, etc., jointly operated by health professionals with a certain degree of skill, hereinafter referred to as the same), and to give full play to their roles in preventing and treating diseases, in order to protect the people's health, and to serve the construction of the Four Harmonizations, the present Measures are hereby formulated. Article 2 Individual medical practitioners and joint medical and health institutions are an integral part of the socialist health undertakings, and are necessary supplements to the public medical and health institutions, and their practitioners are independent laborers relying on their own medical technology to prevent and cure diseases for the masses. Their legitimate labor and lawful rights and interests in performing medical work are protected by national laws. Chapter II Conditions for Practice Article 3 Individual doctors or joint medical and health institutions, whether from the local or foreign, must go through the formalities of applying for practice, and only after obtaining the approval of the license to practice can they start to practice medicine. Article IV who meets one of the following conditions, may apply for the practice of medicine:

One, the social loafers who hold a Chinese or Western medical doctor, midwife or above the technical credentials of professional health technicians.

Second, the national or collective ownership units retired, retired, retired Chinese and Western physicians, doctors, midwives.

Three, Chinese medicine migrant, self-study of traditional Chinese medicine, or the treatment of certain diseases do have a skill, can independently diagnosis or in the folk medicine for many years, by the county (including county-level) health administrative department of the assessment of those who are qualified.

Four, the national ownership units approved by the Chinese and Western physicians, medical doctors, midwives, without pay.

Fifth, the social idle and approved by the radiology, testing, pharmacy, physical therapy and other professional and technical personnel, can participate in the joint medical and health institutions. Nurses, in addition to participating in the nursing work of the joint medical and health institutions, may also be recruited for specialized nursing work.

VI. Rural doctors who have passed the examination of the health administrative department above the county. Article V Where one of the following circumstances, shall not be allowed to practice:

I. Public health care institutions, health technicians, unauthorized departure within five years or dismissed from public service within seven years.

Second, without the county (including county-level) health administrative department of the assessment.

Three, graduates of higher or secondary medical colleges and universities trained by the state, disobedient to the assignment within five years.

Four, the public health care institutions in the health care technicians.

Fifth, suffering from mental illness or other diseases (such as leprosy, tuberculosis, hepatitis, etc.) in the infectious period is not suitable for practicing medicine.

VI. Persons deprived of political rights. Article VI to open a joint hospital or maternity home, must meet the opening conditions of more than ten health professionals and more than thirty sick celebrations, and have the appropriate premises, medical equipment, instruments, medicines, etc., before applying for business. To open a joint clinic or midwifery station, there must be more than three health technicians who meet the conditions of practice and have the corresponding premises, medical equipment, instruments and medicines before applying for practice. Article 7 Individual practicing doctors or joint medical and health institutions may employ one to five service personnel, but non-health technicians may not engage in medical technology. Chapter III approval procedures and scope of business Article 8 Where the application for individual practice of medicine or to organize (participate in) the joint medical and health institutions, must hold a formal household registration certificate, and have sufficient proof of their actual experience of practice license or retirement documents or proof of academic qualifications, to the health administrative departments above the county for application for practice procedures.

Approval to practice medicine, should be based on the applicant's different circumstances, respectively, require the following formalities:

Suspension of salary to stay on the job personnel, must be signed with the original work unit to stay on the job without pay contract;

Have Chinese medicine a skilled personnel, must fill out the "Chinese medicine a skilled personnel assessment and approval of submissions," and submit the relevant diagnostic and treatment case information, by the county-level administrative department of health examination Qualified, to obtain a "Chinese medicine a skilled personnel license";

Chinese medicine migrants, must follow the teacher for three years, by the technical assessment, has reached the level of Chinese medicine doctor;

Self-study of Chinese medicine to become a person, must be qualified by the self-study examination committee unified examination, to obtain the academic certificate;

Countryside doctors, must be by the local and municipal health administrative departments of the unified proposition, unified examination and marking and grading, to reach the level of doctors, and obtain the certificate of rural doctors. Article IX qualified by the examination of individual doctors or joint medical and health institutions, issued a license to practice. Practice license by the provincial health department unified format, the local municipal health bureau printing, the county-level health administrative department issued, can be charged at cost.

Individual doctors and joint medical and health institutions of the license to send the licensing authority once a year to verify, and stamped with the annual seal of acceptance. Those who fail to do so after the due date shall be deemed to be out of business. The business or the death of the practitioner, the business license shall expire on its own. Article 10 When moving away from the county of licensing, the license shall be returned to the administrative department of health in exchange for a certificate, to the new place to re-open procedures; in the county to move the address, should be reported to the original approving authority for re-approval procedures. Article XI individual doctors or joint medical and health institutions technicians practice only approved subjects, change subjects or expand the scope of business; should be approved by the original approval of the practice of the department for approval. Individual doctors should have a fixed business address, but also in the designated lot mobile medical practice; rural doctors in their own village and township medical practice; joint medical and health institutions should have a fixed business address, you can set up a certain number of beds, and promote the opening of family beds.