Poor and chronic disease patients will be covered by contract

Source: Health Report on September 26, 2017, the national health and Family Planning Commission issued a notice to further verify and approve the chronic disease patients among the rural poor, incorporate them into the contracted service management of family doctors, give priority to the coverage of chronic disease patients such as hypertension, diabetes and tuberculosis, and gradually expand to all chronic disease patients, striving to 2017 By the end of, the contracted services for the rural poor were fully covered The areas with conditions can gradually cover the rural minimum living insurance objects, the extremely poor, the poor disabled and other groups The national health and Family Planning Commission requires all localities to select qualified rural doctors and doctors in township hospitals to form a signing team Poor people with chronic diseases voluntarily choose a family doctor team to sign a service agreement Under the guidance of county-level hospitals, contracted doctors and teams should formulate personalized contract management plans, implement classified management of general chronic disease patients and high-risk groups, carry out basic medical treatment, public health, chronic disease management, health consultation, TCM Intervention and other services, dynamically grasp the health status of the contracted objects, timely refer the patients according to their condition, and guide them to seek medical treatment reasonably The national health and Family Planning Commission stressed that all localities should include a number of contracted chronic diseases among the poor into the overall plan for poverty alleviation, make overall arrangements and formulate targeted preferential policies Local poverty alleviation offices should coordinate relevant departments as a whole, set up special funds for signing contracts for chronic diseases of the poor, which are used to subsidize the personal payment part of the signing fees, the signing management fees, the consulting and guidance fees of superior experts, etc., and give full play to the maximum guarantee benefits of funds such as civil affairs assistance, financial subsidies, medical insurance funds, etc Where conditions permit, we can explore the establishment of supplementary health poverty alleviation insurance and long-term care insurance for the poor, and expand the financing channels of contracted services We will strive to reduce the burden on the poor with chronic diseases to the greatest extent, improve the sense of access to contracted services, and form a policy superposition effect It is understood that China is in the period of economic and social transformation with the accelerated development of aging and rapid change of disease spectrum, and the population over 60 years old has exceeded 2 Million people, cardiovascular disease, malignant tumor, hypertension, diabetes and other chronic diseases have become the main cause of death and the main burden of disease for residents, and the loss of labor force due to chronic diseases has also become one of the main causes of poverty among the rural poor Experts said that according to the latest statistics of the national health and Family Planning Commission, the contracted services of family doctors now cover 320m people This time, it is required to achieve the goal of full coverage of contracted services for poor chronic disease patients by the end of the year, which will provide a significant "health prescription" for poverty alleviation.