Health and Family Planning Commission: hierarchical diagnosis and treatment will be written into law

Source: on November 6, 2014, at the regular press conference held by the health and Family Planning Commission yesterday, the deputy director of the legal department of the health and Family Planning Commission said that at present, the pace of legislation of the basic medical and health law is being accelerated, including how to build the medical and health service system, which needs to be designed at the legal level, and hierarchical diagnosis and treatment will also be regulated by legal means At the same time, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has listed the basic medical and health law into the five-year legislative plan, and will actively promote the legislative work of the law In addition, in response to a reporter's question, song set up, spokesman of the national health and Family Planning Commission, said that the national health and Family Planning Commission has instructed the Chinese Medical Association to carry out rectification According to the requirements of the audit department, the rectification measures of CMA include checking the problems existing in the investment promotion of academic conferences one by one, suspending the investment promotion activities of academic conferences during the inspection period, strengthening the management of academic conferences, formulating the management regulations of academic conferences, strictly managing the approval of academic conference plans, clearly prohibiting the acts of providing the address book of representatives to pharmaceutical enterprises, and strengthening the management of specialized branches We should strengthen financial management, formulate and improve relevant systems, and manage all revenues and expenditures in a unified way The following is the actual record of the press conference The author rearranged the contents of the basic medical and health law in the form of questions and answers Q: why the basic medical and health law? A: with the deepening of the new round of medical and health system reform, and the gradual establishment of the basic medical and health system with Chinese characteristics, many fundamental and principled issues in the development of health services need to be regulated by a basic and comprehensive law At the same time, experience, practices and specific systems that have proved effective also need to be raised to law in a timely manner The main content of the new round of medical reform is to establish a basic medical and health system throughout the country At the same time, the basic medical and health system should be provided to the whole people as a public product There is no clear legal definition of the connotation of basic medical and health services Q: how is the current progress? A: at present, we are cooperating with the National People's Congress in basic medical and health legislation We regard the legislative work of the basic medical and health law as the top priority of the work of the whole committee This law will be the basic law in the field of health, and will become an important supporting law in the legal system of socialism with Chinese characteristics It will be based on the protection of citizens' health rights and interests, clarify the nature of health undertakings, basic health system, citizens' health rights, government health investment and other major issues from the legal level, and point out the direction and make institutional arrangements for major reform and development in the future health field through macro and scientific top-level design Q: what is the main content of the basic medical and health law? A: we have formulated the basic medical and health law The first is to implement the requirements of the Constitution and safeguard citizens' health rights and interests There are two articles of the constitution directly related to health care, namely articles 21 and 45 How can the government provide basic medical and health services and basic medical security for citizens Second, we need to implement the spirit of the third and fourth plenary sessions of the 18th Central Committee of the CPC Now we need to guide and promote reform with the rule of law, and handle the relationship between legislative decisions and reform decisions There are clear regulations in the documents of the fourth plenary session Third, to highlight the top-level design, we need to solve the basic and directional problems of health work For example, what is the nature of the health service and what is the basic system, including how to build the medical and health service system, which needs to be designed at the legal level, as well as the hierarchical diagnosis and treatment that we are more concerned about, we hope to regulate it by legal means Q: what problems does the basic medical literacy law solve? A: the key issues to be solved in the basic medical and health law include: first, to clarify the basic nature of health services The second is to clarify the rights and obligations of citizens in medical and health services At present, there are 11 laws on health and family planning, but they are not specific Therefore, we need to further clarify this issue in the basic medical and health law The third is to clarify the main contents of medical and health services It emphasizes that the state guarantees citizens to enjoy basic medical and health services fairly Fourth, build a fair, accessible, convenient and efficient health service system, and clarify the functional orientation of all kinds of medical and health institutions Fifth, in terms of the basic medical and health system, it is clear what responsibilities the government should take We also hope to establish a unified and standardized health supervision and management system.