National Health and Family Planning Commission speeds up the legislation of basic medical and health law to clarify the nature of health services

Source: the basic medical and health law, which was not implemented on November 5, 2014, may usher in the ice breaking trip On November 5, Zhao Ning, deputy director of the legal department of the national health and Family Planning Commission, revealed at the regular press conference held by the national health and family planning commission that the next work focus of the national health and Family Planning Commission is to speed up the legislative pace of the basic medical and health law, which has been included in the top priority of the work of the Commission In addition, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has listed the basic medical and health law into the five-year legislative plan It is reported that there is no special health law in China, and people in the industry have been calling for accelerating the basic medical and health law for a long time This time, Zhao Ning introduced that this law will be the basic law in the field of health, and will become an important law that plays a supporting role in the legal system of socialism with Chinese characteristics At the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, it was proposed that the rule of law should guide and promote reform, and the relationship between legislative decision-making and reform decision-making should be handled well "The basic medical and health law is formulated first to implement the requirements of the constitution, safeguard the health rights and interests of citizens, second to implement the above-mentioned spirit, and third to highlight the top-level design and solve the basic and directional problems of health work." Zhao Ning said According to Zhao Ning, 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 However, there is no clear legal definition of the connotation of basic medical and health services in China All these problems will be solved in the basic medical and health law Zhao Ning made it clear that in the basic medical and health law, the nature of health undertakings, basic systems and how to build a medical and health service system, as well as hierarchical diagnosis and treatment of social concern, will be stipulated by legal means
Zhao Ning said that the key issues to be solved in the basic medical and health law include the following six aspects: first, to clarify the basic nature of health services; second, to clarify the rights and obligations of citizens in medical and health services; third, to clarify the main contents of medical and health services, emphasizing that the state guarantees citizens to enjoy basic medical and health services fairly; fourth, to build fairness, accessibility and convenience , an efficient health service system, and a clear functional orientation of all kinds of medical and health institutions; five, in terms of the basic medical and health system, a clear responsibility of the government; six, the establishment of a unified and standardized health supervision and management system.