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NHC issues Action Plan to Comprehensively Improve Medical Quality (2023-2025)

2023-05-31 10:14:55
       Recently, the National Health Commission and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine issued a notice on the Comprehensive Improvement of Medical Quality Action (2023-2025), which will jointly carry out a three-year comprehensive improvement of medical quality action across the country.

Policy interpretation of the Action Plan for Comprehensively Improving Medical Quality (2023-2025)

1. Setting the background
       Medical quality and safety is directly related to the people's sense of gain, and is an important guarantee for people's health and the cornerstone of health development. Continuous improvement of medical quality and guarantee of medical safety is the basic and core work for implementing the strategic deployment of the Party Central Committee and The State Council and promoting the construction of a healthy China. To this end, the National Health and Health Commission and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine carried out the hospital management year, medical quality miles, "three good and one satisfaction", improve medical service action and "convenient to see Chinese medicine, safe use of Chinese medicine, good Chinese medicine to benefit the people and the people" and other activities deeply popular, effective activities, to protect the quality and safety of medical care, safeguard the people's health rights and interests have played an important role.

       In recent years, as China has entered a new stage of development and the in-depth implementation of the healthy China strategy, the people's quality of life has been continuously improved, their health awareness has been continuously improved, and they have higher expectations and requirements for the quality of medical service. At the same time, there are still some weak links in the field of medical quality and safety, some system requirements have not been fully implemented, basic quality and safety still need to be further consolidated, and the understanding and implementation of new development concepts and methods still need to be strengthened. This requires us to formulate this action plan on the basis of previous work, in accordance with the principle of inheritance and development, adhere to the concept of system and integrity innovation, based on the new development stage, and closely related to the new situation and new tasks of high-quality development of public hospitals.

2、Main contents
        Guided by the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a new era, this action fully implemented the spirit of the Party's 20 National Congress, practiced the new development concept, comprehensively strengthened the management of medical quality and safety, and promoted the expansion and balanced distribution of high-quality medical resources. From the aspects of basic quality and safety management, key links and behavior management, quality and safety management system construction, 28 specific measures and 5 special actions are proposed. The main content includes three aspects: First, strengthen the basic quality and safety management, and consolidate the quality of the structure. Centering on the core elements of medical quality and safety management organization system, system system, working mechanism and medical personnel, drugs and equipment, medical technology, etc. to guide the improvement and implementation of secondary and above medical institutions, and focus on strengthening the quality and safety management of weak links such as emergency, outpatient, daytime, surgery, and patient follow-up. Second, strengthen key links and behavior management to improve process quality. It focuses on 10 aspects, including daily diagnosis and treatment behavior, patient evaluation, three-level ward rounds, rational drug use, inspection and inspection, medical record quality, consultation behavior, emergency and critical patient treatment, patient safety management, and nursing services, and guides medical institutions to improve the quality and safety of the whole diagnosis and treatment process. The third is to weave a dense quality management network and improve the working mechanism. The health administrative departments are required to further improve the quality control system and working mechanism, strengthen the disclosure of quality and safety information, explore the establishment of a "quality first" performance management mechanism, and strengthen the goal orientation in the work, give full play to the baton role of assessment and evaluation, and urge and guide medical institutions to implement relevant work requirements.

       At the same time, the action has set up five special actions: surgical quality and safety improvement action, "breaking the wall" action, medical history connotation quality improvement action, patient safety special action, and "weaving the web" action. Specific requirements and objectives are put forward in five aspects of surgical quality and safety management, the establishment of "disease-based chain" diagnosis and treatment mode, the connotation quality of medical records, patient safety management, and the construction of quality control organization system, which are also the core tasks of this action.

3、Job requirement
       


重点词汇
323/5000
传统翻译模型
通用场景
All localities and medical institutions above the second level should fully understand the significance and necessity of action, further improve the political position, make efforts from various aspects such as improving the system requirements, improving the quality control organization, optimizing the working mechanism, and strengthening the application of results, and implement the relevant work requirements in a highly responsible attitude towards people's health. The responsible comrades of the health administration departments should personally grasp, carry out action work deployment on an annual basis, refine policies and measures, clarify the division of responsibilities, consolidate responsibilities layer by layer, summarize the work every year, and promote the orderly development of the work. The main person in charge of medical institutions should personally study and lead, implement various work, strengthen basic medical safety management, strengthen daily monitoring, analysis and feedback of medical quality and safety, and promote the smooth development of actions. At the same time, explore advanced practices and experience, select annual typical cases, strengthen publicity and promotion in the work, and summarize experience from the system and mechanism level, good practices and good measures are fixed in the form of systems, and lay a more solid foundation for the high-quality development of the medical and health industry.

Full text is as follows:

Action Plan to Comprehensively Improve the Quality of Healthcare (2023-2025)

       In order to further promote the construction of a healthy China, further deepen the reform of the medical and health care system, comprehensively improve the level of medical quality and safety, build a high-quality and efficient medical and health service system with Chinese characteristics, and protect the health rights and interests of the people, the "patient-centered, On the basis of the activities of improving the quality of medical services as the theme "Hospital management Year activities," "Medical quality miles" activities, "Three good and one satisfaction" activities, "Convenient to see Chinese medicine, rest assured to use Chinese medicine, and good Chinese medicine to benefit the people", the action plan to improve medical services, "Private Hospital Management Year" activities, etc., adhere to the principle of inheritance and development, based on the new development stage, This action plan is formulated in accordance with the new situation and new tasks of high-quality development of public hospitals.

I. General requirements

(1) Guiding ideology

 To promote the high-quality development of medical and health services as the theme, to improve the quality of supply as the main direction, pay equal attention to traditional Chinese and western medicine, strengthen the overall quality and safety management, promote the expansion of high-quality medical resources and balanced regional distribution, and constantly enhance the people's sense of gain, happiness and security.

2. Action objectives

Use 3 years to further establish quality and safety awareness in the whole industry, improve the quality and safety management system and management mechanism, further improve the government supervision, institutional autonomy, industry participation, social supervision of medical quality and safety management of multiple co-governance mechanism, further consolidate basic medical quality and safety management, improve medical quality and safety management refined, scientific, standardized degree. Further optimize the allocation of medical resources and the balance of services, improve the diagnosis and treatment ability of major diseases and the level of medical quality and safety, and continue to improve people's satisfaction with medical services.

Scope of action

National secondary or above medical institutions.

3. Organization and management

The NHC and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine are responsible for the formulation and implementation of the national action plan, and guide the provincial health administration departments (including the competent departments of traditional Chinese medicine, the same below), the national quality control center, the industry association (association), and medical institutions to promote the work respectively. Provincial health administrative departments are responsible for the formulation and implementation of specific work programs in their jurisdictions, guiding medical institutions and relevant organizations and units in their jurisdictions to implement relevant work requirements and regulatory responsibilities, summing up experience in a timely manner and strengthening publicity and communication.

The professional quality control center above the provincial level is responsible for the formulation of the professional quality and safety improvement work plan and organize the implementation; Monitor and analyze the medical quality and safety situation of the specialty, study and put forward the medical quality and safety improvement objectives and quality control work improvement objectives, strengthen the research on quality and safety improvement strategies, and provide technical support for the management of administrative departments. Other quality control organizations at all levels shall carry out their work according to the division of labor.

All kinds of medical institutions at all levels are the main body of responsibility for the action, and the main person in charge of medical institutions is the first responsible person. Medical institutions shall, in accordance with the requirements of this action plan and the specific plans of the jurisdiction, strengthen the main responsibility of medical quality and safety, improve the medical quality and safety management system, implement various specific tasks, strengthen personnel education, cultivate a quality and safety culture, and improve the level of medical quality and safety.

Iv. Work tasks

(1) Strengthen the management of basic quality and safety, and consolidate the quality of the structure

1. Improve the medical quality management organization system. Medical institutions further improve the medical quality and safety management system at the hospital and department levels, and establish a medical quality management committee headed by the main person in charge of medical institutions as required, and designate or establish a special department specifically responsible for the daily management of medical quality and safety. Each business department shall set up a medical quality management working group headed by the main person in charge, and appoint a special person to take charge of the daily specific work.

2. Improve the quality and safety management system. In strict accordance with the requirements of laws and regulations, medical institutions have established and improved the quality and safety management systems of the institutions, strengthened the daily management of key links and key areas, and refined and strictly implemented 18 core systems of medical quality and safety in combination with the actual conditions of the institutions.

3. Optimize the working mechanism of quality and safety. The main person in charge of medical institutions holds a special meeting of the medical quality Management committee every month to study and deploy the medical quality and safety work. Establish the quality and safety working mechanism of the weekly hospital meeting, establish the quality and safety monthly, and urge and guide all departments and departments to accurately carry out the medical quality and safety improvement work. The principal person in charge of each department, each clinical department and medical technology department holds a special meeting every month to study the medical quality and safety work of the department and the undergraduate department.

4. Strengthen the management of medical personnel. Medical institutions, in accordance with relevant state regulations, strengthen the access and practice management of doctors, nurses and medical technicians, standardize the multi-point practice and regular assessment of doctors, focus on clinical diagnosis and treatment guidelines, technical norms and operating procedures, strengthen the training and assessment of basic theories, basic knowledge and basic skills for all medical personnel, and constantly improve the professional ability of medical personnel.

5. Strengthen the management of drugs and devices. Medical institutions shall determine their drug and device supply lists according to law and regulations, strengthen the management of key drugs for rational drug use, antimicrobial drugs, anti-tumor drugs, radiological imaging equipment, implant devices and other commonly used equipment and devices, and do a good job in monitoring and reporting adverse reactions of drugs and devices. Drugs and devices with more adverse reactions and prominent safety hazards shall be removed from the supply catalog in a timely manner according to law and regulations.

6. Standardize medical technology management. Medical institutions comprehensively review the clinical application of their medical technologies, focus on restricting technologies, endoscopy and interventional technologies, strengthen quality and safety management, strengthen the access management of new technologies and new projects, improve the corresponding management system and work flow such as technology authorization and dynamic management, and on the basis of ensuring medical quality and safety. We will strengthen the clinical application of new technologies and the dissemination of appropriate technologies. The operation of TCM medical technology should strictly comply with the requirements of the Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of TCM Medical Technology-Related Infections (Trial), and strictly implement the requirements of infection control management.

7. Improve the quality of emergency care. Medical institutions should strengthen the seamless connection mechanism between pre-hospital medical emergency and in-hospital emergency, smooth the information of pre-hospital medical emergency and in-hospital emergency, strengthen pre-examination and triage, optimize the process of emergency treatment and green channel, improve the multidisciplinary collaborative treatment mechanism for critically ill patients, especially those with cardiovascular diseases, multiple trauma, cardiac arrest and other critically ill patients, and improve the treatment effect of patients.

8. Improve the quality of outpatient care. Medical institutions strictly implement the responsibility system for first diagnosis, strengthen the allocation of outpatient and emergency professionals and technical forces, optimize the outpatient and emergency diagnosis and treatment workflow, optimize the outpatient consultation of difficult cases and multidisciplinary outpatient diagnosis and treatment services, strengthen the quality and safety management of outpatient surgery, outpatient chemotherapy, outpatient infusion and other outpatient services, and take the quality of outpatient and emergency work as an important part of the assessment of departments and medical personnel.

9. Improving the quality of day care. Medical institutions should further improve the organization system of daytime medical quality management, strengthen the management of daytime medical diseases and technologies, strengthen the management of daytime medical departments and physician audit and authorization, constantly expand the scope of daytime medical services, and improve the supply capacity of daytime medical services. Strengthen the assessment and follow-up of patients with daytime medical care, timely detect changes in patients' conditions and intervene to ensure the safety of patients with daytime medical care.

10. Ensure surgical quality and safety. Medical institutions strictly implement the grading management system of surgery, strengthen the dynamic management of surgery grading and doctor authorization, and ensure that third and fourth grade surgeries are granted and dynamically adjusted one by one. Comprehensively strengthen preoperative evaluation and anesthesia evaluation of surgical patients, implement preoperative discussion system, accurately grasp surgical indications and contraindications, and scientifically formulate surgical plans. Strictly implement the operation safety verification system and strengthen perioperative management.
11.提高患者随访质量。医疗机构根据不同疾病特点及诊疗规律,明确随访时间、频次、形式和内容等,安排专门人员进行随访并准确记录,为有需要的患者提供出院后连续、安全的延伸性医疗服务。重点加强四级手术、恶性肿瘤患者的随访管理,重点关注患者出院后发生并发症、非预期再入院治疗和不良转归等情况。

12.优化要素配置和运行机制。医疗机构进一步强化“以患者为中心,以疾病为链条”的理念,打破传统学科划分和专业设置壁垒,以多学科协作(MDT)为基础,探索专病中心建设,为患者提供重大疾病诊疗一站式服务。
(二)强化关键环节和行为管理,提高过程质量

13.严格规范日常诊疗行为。医疗机构和医务人员严格遵循临床诊疗指南、临床技术操作规范、行业标准和临床路径等有关要求开展诊疗工作,严格遵守医疗质量安全核心制度,掌握各类检查、治疗的适应证,做到合理检查、合理用药、合理治疗。

14.全面加强患者评估。医疗机构在住院当日、围手术(治疗)期、出院前等关键时间节点强化患者评估,规范评估流程、掌握评估策略、使用评估工具,提高评估的科学性、准确性;密切监测患者病情变化及心理状态,并及时进行再评估,根据评估情况科学调整诊疗方案,保障诊疗措施的及时性、规范性。

15.提升三级查房质量。严格落实三级查房制度,保障临床科室对患者的查房频次、形式和内容符合规定;倡导医疗、护理、药事联合查房,倡导中西医联合查房,及时掌握患者病情变化,针对性调整诊疗方案。对四级手术患者和疑难危重患者要进行重点查房,推行多学科联合查房。

16.提升合理用药水平。规范医师处方行为,按照安全、有效、经济、适宜的合理用药原则开具处方。推行临床药师制,发挥药师在处方审核、处方点评、药学监护等合理用药管理方面的作用。强化合理用药教育与培训,对不合理用药行为及时采取干预措施。在儿科等重点科室配备驻科药师,参与药物治疗管理。

17.提高检查检验质量。建立健全覆盖检查、检验全过程的质量管理制度,加强室内质量控制,重点关注即时检验(POCT)质量管理,配合做好室间质量评价工作,充分发挥质量管理对于推进医疗机构检查检验结果互认的重要作用。进一步优化危急值项目管理目录和识别机制,强化危急值报告的及时性、准确性。

18.加强病历质量管理。以提升病历内涵质量和完整性、及时性为核心任务,加强编码管理和病历质量培训,规范病历书写。以首次病程、上级医师查房、手术记录、阶段小结、出院小结等反映诊疗计划和关键过程的病历内容为重点强化管理,提升医疗质量安全意识和水平。推行门(急)诊结构化病历,提高门(急)诊病历记录规范性和完整性,提高门(急)诊电子病历使用比例。
19.加强会诊管理。进一步完善会诊制度,明确各类会诊的具体流程,加强会诊人员资质管理,统一会诊单格式及填写规范,规范会诊行为,追踪会诊意见执行情况和执行效果。同时,加强中医、营养、康复、精神、检验、病理、影像、药学等科室的多学科会诊参与度,充分发挥营养和康复治疗对提升治疗效果的积极作用。

20.提高急难危重救治效果。医疗机构进一步优化绿色通道管理,做好急难危重患者分类,完善抢救资源配置与紧急调配机制,保障各单元抢救设备和药品可用,确保急危重患者优先救治,加强危急值处置管理,提高危急值处置的及时性、规范性。进一步落实急危重患者抢救制度和疑难病例讨论制度,提高重症患者救治技术能力。

21.强化患者安全管理。医疗机构进一步提升医务人员患者安全意识和对医疗质量(安全)不良事件的识别能力,强化医疗质量(安全)不良事件的主动报告,定期对患者医疗质量(安全)不良事件发生情况进行分析,查找存在的共性问题和薄弱环节,开展系统性改进工作。
22.提供优质护理。医疗机构持续扩大优质护理服务覆盖面,落实护理核心制度,做实责任制整体护理,夯实基础护理质量,实现优质护理服务扩面提质。完善护理质量监测与反馈,基于循证基础和临床需求开展持续改进工作,提高护理同质化水平。

(三)织密质量管理网络,完善工作机制

23.健全质控体系和工作机制。卫生健康行政部门规范本级质控中心的建设和管理,中医药主管部门要加强中医质控中心建设和设置,强化对质控中心指导考核,进一步扩大质控工作覆盖范围,提高质控中心工作的规范化、科学化、专业化水平,将部分重点专业质控组织延伸至县区。地(市)级以上卫生健康行政部门(含中医药主管部门,下同)每季度召开至少1次专题会议,研究质控体系建设运行、推进质量安全提升行动计划等相关工作。

24.加强质量安全信息公开。省级以上卫生健康行政部门建立辖区内医疗机构质量安全排名、通报和信息公开制度,完善工作机制,充分调动行业重视程度和工作积极性。各级质控中心围绕本专业年度质量安全情况进行监测、分析和反馈,为此项工作提供技术支撑。

25.完善“以质为先”的绩效管理机制。医疗机构将医疗质量管理情况作为绩效考核的重要依据,探索建立以医疗质量安全为导向的绩效分配机制。将科室医疗质量管理情况作为科室负责人综合目标考核以及聘任、晋升、评先评优的重要指标;将科室和医务人员医疗质量管理情况作为医师定期考核、晋升的重要依据。
(3) Weave the quality management network and improve the working mechanism

23. Improve the quality control system and working mechanism. The health administration department regulates the construction and management of quality control centers at the same level, and the competent department of Chinese medicine shall strengthen the construction and setting of Chinese medicine quality control centers, strengthen the guidance and assessment of quality control centers, further expand the coverage of quality control work, improve the standardization, scientific and professional level of quality control center work, and extend some key professional quality control organizations to counties and districts. Health administrative departments at or above the prefecture-level (city) level (including the competent departments of traditional Chinese medicine, the same below) shall hold at least one special meeting every quarter to study the construction and operation of the quality control system, and promote the action plan for quality and safety improvement.

24. Strengthen quality and safety information disclosure. Health administrative departments at or above the provincial level shall establish a quality and safety ranking, notification and information disclosure system for medical institutions within their jurisdiction, improve the working mechanism, and fully mobilize the industry's attention and enthusiasm for work. Quality control centers at all levels monitor, analyze and feedback the annual quality and safety situation of the profession, and provide technical support for this work.

25. Improve the "quality first" performance management mechanism. Medical institutions take medical quality management as an important basis for performance assessment, and explore the establishment of medical quality and safety-oriented performance distribution mechanism. The medical quality management of the department is regarded as an important index for the comprehensive objective assessment, appointment, promotion and evaluation of the department head; The medical quality management of departments and medical staff is taken as an important basis for regular assessment and promotion of doctors.

5. Work arrangement

(I) Start-up phase (May-June 2023)

The United Nations Home Medicine Bureau of the National Health Commission formulated and issued an action plan, formulated an indicator system for monitoring the effect of actions in various provinces, and held a working conference to make specific work arrangements. The provincial health administrative departments shall formulate specific work plans and report them to the National Health Commission and the National Bureau of Traditional Chinese Medicine for the record, and deploy relevant work in their respective jurisdictions.

(II) Implementation Phase (June 2023 - September 2025)

The health administration departments at all levels shall plan and summarize their work on an annual basis. All localities implement their work in accordance with this plan, strengthen guidance and evaluation, and solve common problems in a timely manner. Discover advanced practices and typical experiences, select annual typical cases and promote them.

(III) Evaluation Summary (October - December 2025)

On the basis of local summaries, the National Health and Health Commission and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine conducted a comprehensive summary and evaluation of the work of quality and safety improvement, refined the work experience of quality and safety improvement, notified the typical cases found in the inspection, strengthened the publicity of action plans and work effectiveness, created a good public opinion atmosphere, and organized publicity and promotion of advanced practices and typical experiences discovered in the work. Promote the formation of institutional arrangements.

6. Job requirements

1. Strengthen organizational leadership. All units should fully understand the importance of carrying out the action plan to comprehensively improve medical quality, and implement the work with a highly responsible attitude towards people's health. The responsible comrades of the health administration departments should personally grasp, refine policies and measures, clarify the division of responsibilities, consolidate responsibilities at various levels, and promote the orderly development of work. The main person in charge of medical institutions should personally study and lead, implement various work, strengthen basic medical safety management, strengthen daily monitoring, analysis and feedback of medical quality and safety, and promote the smooth development of actions.

2. Coordinating policies. Local health administrative departments should formulate and improve supporting documents according to the requirements of laws and regulations, departmental rules and relevant documents, guide medical institutions to establish and improve relevant systems and norms and strengthen daily supervision. Make full use of hospital review, performance assessment, specialist evaluation and other work starting points to implement the work of medical quality and safety improvement, and promote continuous improvement of medical quality and safety.

3. Strengthen scientific management. Health administrative departments at all levels, quality control organizations and medical institutions should pay close attention to the frontier progress in the field of medical quality and safety management, absorb advanced management experience and methods at home and abroad, strengthen the study and training related to medical quality and safety management, promote medical quality management tools such as single disease management and total quality management, and improve the scientific degree and management efficiency of quality and safety management.

4. Strengthen publicity and guidance. Health administrative departments at all levels and quality control organizations should pay attention to the implementation of advanced examples from multiple dimensions and levels, make full use of mainstream media in the industry and short videos, public accounts and other network new media in various forms for publicity and promotion, and create a good atmosphere. Health administrative departments at or above the provincial level should select typical cases with representative significance to be notified and praised, and fully mobilize the enthusiasm of medical institutions to participate in the action.

5. Establish a long-term mechanism. The provincial health administration departments should constantly sum up experience during the action, further consolidate the industry-wide quality and safety awareness and "patient-centered" service concept, enhance the willingness of all parties to participate in medical quality and safety management, and further enhance the social recognition of the industry. Improve the multi-beneficial co-governance long-term mechanism of government supervision, institutional autonomy, industry self-discipline, and social supervision of medical quality and safety management.

Annex: Provincial action effect monitoring index system