The National Health Commission (NHC), in collaboration with the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (NATCM) and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has issued a set of Measures for Hospital Inspection Management. These measures signal the impending commencement of a new round of extensive hospital inspections, aimed at enhancing the standardization and systemization of hospital inspection processes, and are effective immediately.
Since 2005, the NHC has conducted four rounds of large-scale hospital inspections nationwide, which have positively contributed to bolstering the quality of the public hospital system, advancing clean governance, improving hospital management and operational standards, influencing health industry practices, and protecting patient rights and interests.
The inspection scope encompasses Class 2 and above public hospitals, including those specializing in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Primary healthcare facilities and private hospitals are also expected to adhere to the management rules, despite not being subject to inspection. Local Health Commission bureaus and relevant government entities are required to submit inspection reports for the preceding 12 months by the end of January each year. TCM hospitals and infectious disease hospitals are to report to the NATCM and CDC, respectively.
The hospital inspection cycle typically spans four years. For Class 3 general hospitals, TCM hospitals, integrated TCM and Western medicine hospitals, and ethnic minority medical hospitals, the inspection period should last no fewer than seven days. For Class 3 specialist hospitals, maternal and child health hospitals, and Class 2 hospitals, the inspections should last no fewer than five days.- Flcube.com
