Ministry of Health: allowing local additions to the drug catalog

July 13, the seventh session of the World Health Economic Assembly China Forum held in Beijing, China's Ministry of Health Drug Policy and Basic Drug Systems Division director Zhenghong said that to ensure that primary health care institutions fully equipped with the use of essential drugs, the Government's compensation must be in place, in addition,　　The National basic drug system also allows local government to increase access to the community and hospitals under the unified guidance of provincial governments. Yin, vice Minister of Health, stressed at the meeting that the establishment of a national basic drug system should be done in the following areas: the development of the release of the 2009 version of the National Basic Drug catalogue, the protection of essential drug production, the strengthening of the quality of basic drugs, the rational use of essential drugs, all basic medical　　To reasonably determine the price of essential drugs, to carry out centralized procurement and distribution of provincial units, and to reduce circulation links.　　July 11, Zhenghong at the Beijing University Guanghua Health Economic Forum, said the national list of essential medicines has actually been completed, including more than 300 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine, the reason is not published to the community, is to take into account the relevant measures are not perfect, such as the use of medical institutions, social security system into the medical system and so on.　　According to the new medical reform, the primary health care institutions organized by the Government are fully equipped with and use essential drugs and are sold at zero difference rates in accordance with the purchase price. In response, yesterday Zhenghong stressed at the meeting that the current hospital 60%~70% income from drugs, for medical institutions because of the use of basic drugs and reduced income, the government will be reasonable "accounts", compensation in place.　　In addition, the proportion of requirements for the use of essential drugs by non-government medical institutions is determined by the pilot reform in public hospitals. For the "Basic drugs catalogue" of the release time pushed again, Zhenghong said: "Sorry everyone." Because the problem of convergence involving a number of policies is not a separate decision of the Ministry of Health.　　He said the Ministry of Health has sent a draft catalogue to all parts of the country for comments, feedback shows that the central and western regions generally agree with the catalogue, but the eastern region reflects the catalogue contains only hundreds of kinds of drugs, the number is too small. Zhenghong also noted that the central government, in formulating its policy, also considered that there would be a certain amount of room for adjustment, allowing local authorities to increase the number of non-directory drugs into communities and hospitals under the unified guidance of provincial governments.　　But he also stressed that the drugs outside such a catalogue should be administered according to the basic drug system, such as tender Purchase, price constraint, etc. According to the idea of new medical reform, all of the essential drugs included in the basic Medical insurance drug reimbursement list, the proportion of reimbursement is significantly higher than the non-essential drugs, Zhenghong stressed that our country currently has urban workers, urban residents, new farming and three kinds of reimbursement system, in the level of fund-raising, the level of reimbursement　　How to make the people through the reimbursement system to increase the reliance on basic drugs and awareness, but also the social security sector to introduce concrete measures. The new medical reform opinion is clear, the essential medicine implements the public tender purchase, unify the distribution, reduces the intermediate link. By the State to develop basic drug retail prices, in the guide price, the provincial people's Government shall determine the unified purchase price of the region according to the tender. Zhenghong that the current domestic production capacity of basic drugs, in the process of procurement, the State will not simply designate several large enterprises to complete production and distribution, so in the competition some enterprises will inevitably be eliminated, there is bound to be the merger of enterprises, reorganization of the phenomenon.