11 departments: Support medical and health institutions to provide on -site inspection services for the elderly disabled elderly people at home

Cover news reporter Shao Meng

The seventh national census data shows that my country ’s 60s and above population reached 264 million, accounting for 18.7%of the total population. In the face of more than 200 million elderly people, how can they meet their needs for medical care services?

On July 22, the cover reporter learned from the National Health and Health Commission that a few days ago, the National Health and Health Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs issued the "Guiding Opinions on Further Promoting the Development of Medical and Nursing" (referred to as "Guidance" ), Proposed to support conditions for medical and health institutions with conditions to provide home medical services such as family beds and on -site visits for the elderly disabled.

In the Yangsi Temple community in Guoyuan Town, Changsha County, Changsha City, Hunan Province, medical staff do physiotherapy for the elderly at home. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Sihan

The State Health and Health Commission pointed out that in recent years, positive progress has been made in the combination of medical care, but there are still difficulties in policy support, service supply, and team building. The "Guidance Opinions" will promote cracking problems in various places and promote the development of medical care.

Actively provide two measures such as home medical services and enhanced community medical care capabilities. The supporting medical and health institutions with conditions are home -disabled (including dementia, the same below), chronic diseases, age, disability and other elderly people who are inconvenient or difficult to provide home medical services such as family beds and on -site visits.

Implement the ability to improve community medical care and nursing, and conditions for community health service agencies, township health centers or community pension service agencies, and special poverty -stricken support service agencies (nursing homes) use existing resources to transform and expand a group of community (townships) medical care inside Combining service facilities, focusing on disability, chronic diseases, seniority, disability and other disabled, or disabled, or indeed difficulty in the elderly, provide medical care -cut combination services.

Encourage medical and health institutions to set up medical service stations at the elderly service institution to provide embedded medical and health services. Promote medical and health institutions to expand on -site medical services to pension institutions, and provide family bed beds and on -site visits for the elderly who are in accordance with the elderly who meet the conditions. All localities should optimize the layout of medical resources, and strengthen the construction of rehabilitation hospitals, nursing homes (centers, stations) and Anning therapy through new methods such as new construction, reconstruction and expansion, transformation and development. Rich regions to transform the transformation of medical and health institutions below, and carry out rehabilitation, care and medical care services.

At the same time, public medical and health institutions carry out home medical services, medical and nursing combined contracting services, and public medical and health institutions with surplus medical resources to use existing beds to carry out pension services. Unified management.

Accelerate the training of talents in the shortage of medical care and pension services, encourage ordinary universities and vocational colleges to increase health and elderly related majors and courses, and expand the scale of enrollment. Vigorously carry out training in the field of medical care and nursing, and give play to the role of professional skills level certificates. In addition, according to the public medical and health institutions, the medical and nursing service situation is carried out, and the total performance salary is approved reasonably. When the public medical and health institutions are distributed internally, they give appropriate tilt medical personnel who have completed the service of home medical services, medical care and nursing contracts.

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