The quality of primary healthcare will be improved and upgraded in the next three years

In order to further enhance the role of primary healthcare institutions in providing basic medical services, the National Health Commission and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine recently issued a notice on the three-year action plan for improving the medical quality of primary healthcare institutions (2026-2028).

The notice clearly states that this action is planned to be carried out year by year in grassroots medical and health institutions across the country over a period of 3 years (2026-2028)--

By the end of 2026, we will first cover central township health centers (including county-level sub centers) and community health service centers that have actually opened more than 30 beds nationwide, improve the medical quality management system, and carry out medical quality management work on a regular basis.

By the end of 2027, the scope will be expanded to other township health centers and community health service centers.

By the end of 2028, the scope will be expanded to village clinics and community health service stations, and a basic grassroots medical quality management system will be established nationwide.

The key implementation scope of this action is township health centers and community health service centers. In rural areas, a closely knit county-level medical community is established, with a focus on covering township health centers (community health service centers) and gradually extending to village clinics (community health service stations); In urban areas, community health service centers are the focus, and the "city leading district, district community integration" model is implemented. The "district community integration" is included in the overall implementation scope and gradually extended to community health service stations.

This action focuses on the management of medical quality and safety in grassroots medical and health institutions, and proposes 9 work tasks in 3 aspects, including management system, personnel training, and key diagnosis and treatment links.

One is to improve the medical quality management system, establish a medical quality management organization within the medical consortium, and designate specialized departments or personnel to be responsible for the daily management of medical quality.

The second is to carry out training for medical personnel, with a focus on clinical diagnosis and treatment guidelines, technical specifications, etc., to strengthen training and assessment for all medical personnel and continuously improve their professional abilities.

The third is to refine the content of improving medical quality around key diagnosis and treatment links, including improving outpatient medical quality, enhancing emergency medical quality, promoting standardized and rational drug use, ensuring inspection and examination quality, improving nursing service quality, strengthening hospital infection control, and improving hospitalization and surgical quality. At the same time, 39 self inspection and rectification contents were refined for local reference.