Zhao Minggang: Privately-owned ** is the new force for China's future medical services

Zhao Minggang, deputy director of the Department of Medical Affairs of the Ministry of Health, believes that private medical institutions are an important part of China's medical service system and are the new force for providing multi-level, diverse, and differentiated medical services in the future. The development and expansion of private hospitals have a positive and irreplaceable role in promoting the vitality of the national medical and health service system and improving the level of management capabilities.

Private hospitals increase investment in medical services, improve service capabilities and levels, and establish brand and discipline advantages to increase service volume and attract more sources of disease. Zhao Minggang said that the Ministry of Health has clearly stated that it is necessary to reserve sufficient space for the development of private hospitals. The Department of Health of the Ministry of Health is optimistic about the development of private hospitals. According to the current status of China's medical and health resources, it is suggested that private hospitals explore in two aspects.

One is high-end medical services. The medical institutions sponsored by the government must adhere to public welfare, ensure basic medical services, and ensure that citizens achieve medical treatment for the disease. The high-end medical market is completely open to private hospitals. At present, there is a huge gap in China's high-end medical service market. Patients have money to spend and cause some of the causes of high-end medical services to flow abroad.

The second is to build a medical service chain. Give full play to the overall function of medical institutions, make the positioning of medical institutions more clear, and take the regional leading medical institutions as the center, and add primary hospitals and community health service organizations to form a complete chain. Grass-roots hospitals solve common and frequently-occurring diseases, and community health service organizations focus on outpatient clinics. In order to guide the formation of the medical service chain and adapt to the reform of the medical insurance payment system (paying by case type, total amount prepayment system, etc.), the Ministry of Health has explicitly requested large public hospitals to improve service efficiency. In the establishment of the medical service chain, the cooperation between the Cancer Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and two private medical institutions in Beijing—Beijing Chaoyang District Sanhuan Cancer Hospital and Beijing Nanyang Cancer Hospital—is a successful example. The Cancer Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences enjoys a high reputation in the country. In order to solve the medical needs of the people, it proposes to cooperate with private hospitals, transfer patients in the rehabilitation period, and make full use of the resources of beds and operating rooms in private hospitals. This idea has been obtained by the Ministry of Health. The full support and affirmation of the facts prove that this service model is completely feasible.

Zhao Minggang suggested that investors should do two homeworks at the beginning of their investment. First, they should have a bottom in their mind about the medical resources in the planned investment areas, understand the local medical resources status and health planning, and the demand and supply of medical services; To formulate a long-term operational development strategy plan, the medical industry has a long return on investment, and it is necessary to prepare for long-term investment.

Zhao Minggang said that although there are no shortages of private hospitals worthy of promotion, they have not received attention. For example, in the earthquake in Yunnan Province this year, the local Yunnan Kidney Disease Hospital not only organized experts to participate in rescue activities but also did not add any trouble to the local government. It also donated. Disaster relief money. Although private hospitals currently have good prospects for development, they are currently constrained by difficult development issues such as human resources. In this regard, he encouraged private hospitals to have confidence, the country’s policies and measures are being improved, and private hospitals must work together with the government.

Zhao Minggang indicated that the Ministry of Health has always supported the development of private hospitals. The private hospitals in the clinical focus assessments were given separate policies. In addition, the Department of Medical Affairs has recently done several tasks, one of which is to study and formulate the strategic layout of China's overall medical institutions. Create a four-level regional medical center and build a medical service network. The four-level regional medical center includes a national regional medical center, a provincial regional medical center, a municipal regional medical center, and a county regional medical center. The establishment of a regional medical center will consider the level of medical institutions' own capabilities, including scale, equipment and facilities, professional and technical teams, and radiation capabilities of services. It will also consider the matching of the distribution of medical resources and demand, and will consider the organization itself. The factors will not be more emphasis on property rights or ownership forms.