Chinanews.com, September 28. "According to incomplete statistics, so far, 50% of the country's second-level public hospitals have carried out appointment diagnosis and treatment services, and more than 4,800 hospitals can provide accurate time-based appointment diagnosis and treatment." Jiao Yahui, director of the Medical Administration and Medical Administration Bureau of the National Health Commission, pointed out.
On the 28th, the National Health and Medical Commission held a press conference on the situation of medical institutions strengthening capacity building to serve the health of the people since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Jiao Yahui made the above statement when answering questions from reporters.
Data map: People queue up for registration in the outpatient hall.
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Jiao Yahui said that the National Health Commission has focused on supply-side structural reform, promoted the construction of a hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system and a medical alliance, and enhanced the continuity and accessibility of medical services.
"On the other hand, we focus on the people's feelings of seeing a doctor on the demand side. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have focused on the more prominent and strong problems reflected in the process of seeing a doctor and seeking a doctor. By improving the environment, optimizing the process, improving the quality, Measures to ensure safety, promote communication, establish mechanisms, and scientific and technological support, and strive to make it convenient for the people to seek medical treatment, safe medical treatment, effective medical treatment and understanding of medical treatment."
"In recent years, we have promoted a series of measures to improve medical services, such as appointment diagnosis and treatment, multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment, clinical pathway management, high-quality nursing services, day surgery, labor analgesia, etc., and provide long-term medical services for patients with chronic diseases in primary medical institutions. It means that a prescription can be extended to two or three months, reducing the need for chronic disease patients who take long-term medication to travel between medical institutions and their families.” Jiao Yahui mentioned that, especially during the epidemic, the policy of long-term prescriptions has benefited more chronically ill patients.
"At the same time, we are promoting the construction of telemedicine services and smart hospitals, using Internet technology to extend the time and space of medical services, so that high-quality medical services can reach patients. In addition, in the health and poverty alleviation work, we take the treatment of serious illnesses for the rural poor as an important content, targeting “one old, one small and one poor” etc. Vulnerable groups, enhance their sense of access to medical treatment."
Jiao Yahui pointed out that according to incomplete statistics, so far, 50% of the public hospitals above the second level in the country have carried out appointment diagnosis and treatment services, and more than 4,800 hospitals can provide accurate and time-based appointment diagnosis and treatment.
In addition, there are more than 2,000 hospitals that provide a service model of multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment.
At the same time, nearly 60% of the third-level public hospitals and 36% of the second-level public hospitals have carried out day surgery. There are more than 700 national first-level recommended catalogs for day surgery. Alleviates the problem of difficult surgery.
In addition, in the pilot work of promoting labor analgesia, according to statistics, the labor analgesia rate in pilot hospitals has increased from 28% in 2017 to 53%. "It should be said that this work has also achieved very good social effects."
In addition, the National Health and Medical Commission focuses on improving the capacity of emergency first aid by focusing on the "five centers" (chest pain center, stroke center, trauma center, high-risk maternal treatment center, high-risk children and neonatal treatment center), and the construction of "five centers" nationwide. More than 14,000 of them have played an important role in saving the lives of patients.
"So, through this series of specific measures to improve medical services, the people's sense of gain, happiness and security in seeing a doctor has been effectively enhanced."