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State Council Outlines 2019 Healthcare Reform Priorities
Key tasks include expanding reform in healthcare insurance, medical care, and drug circulation, with emphasis on Healthy China, public hospital compensation, and cancer prevention.
China's State Council has released a circular outlining key tasks to expand healthcare reform in 2019, focusing on more accessible and affordable services, public hospital reform, and enhanced disease prevention.
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Broader Reform Objectives
The General Office of the State Council released a circular on June 4, 2019, outlining key tasks in expanding healthcare reform for the year. The circular mandates efforts to provide more accessible and cheaper healthcare services, and to further reform the systems of healthcare insurance, medical care, and drug circulation. [41d4804e-923e-43ef-ad90-ad2c586cab9a]
A package of documents on advancing the reform will be formulated, including opinions on implementing the Healthy China strategy. According to the circular, Healthy China will be carried out, and medical institutions will be better supported to provide public health services. [41d4804e-923e-43ef-ad90-ad2c586cab9a]
Key Reform Areas
The circular calls for further reform of the disease prevention and control system, with enhanced cancer prevention and treatment. This includes promoting cancer screening and accelerating the registration and examination of anti-cancer drugs both domestically and internationally. [41d4804e-923e-43ef-ad90-ad2c586cab9a]
In public hospitals, the reform focuses on testing centralized drug procurement and usage, and reforming the compensation system. Local authorities are required to build a dynamic and reasonable pricing system for healthcare services at public hospitals. Efforts should be intensified to deepen comprehensive reform of public hospitals, and modern hospital management will be piloted in some hospitals. [41d4804e-923e-43ef-ad90-ad2c586cab9a]
Additionally, the circular emphasizes the delivery of cross-provincial settlement of medical bills. [41d4804e-923e-43ef-ad90-ad2c586cab9a]
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