Known as the “strongest ever” pharmaceutical anti-corruption storm swept through the pharmaceutical industry, the National Health Commission responded to six major issues of concern.
On August 15, the official website of the National Health Commission released “Questions and Answers about the National Pharmaceutical Fields Corruption Rectification Work”, six questions and answers explaining in detail the background, purpose, main principles, key content, work plan, and academic conference postponement, rumors of corruption cases and other hot topics of external concern.
What is the background and purpose of the centralized rectification work?
A: The field of medicine is the main position for safeguarding people’s health, and is related to the health rights and interests of the general public that are most concerned, most direct and most realistic. The CPC Central Committee attaches great importance to the high-quality development of the pharmaceutical industry, and places the protection of people’s health in the strategic position of priority development. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the medical and health industry has focused on major diseases and major problems affecting people’s health, accelerated the implementation of the Healthy China Strategy, promoted the sustained and high-level development of medicine, healthcare and health insurance, and facilitated the expansion of high-quality healthcare resources and the balanced layout of the region. Medical workers shoulder the sacred responsibility of saving lives and safeguarding people’s health. For a long time, the majority of medical workers have responded to the call of the Party, practiced the new era of professionalism of “respect for life, saving lives and helping the injured, dedication and love”, and played an irreplaceable and important role in disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment, rehabilitation and care, and the development of medical technology innovation and other aspects of the achievements, and have gained the understanding, support and respect of the whole society. The whole society understands, supports and respects them. The hard work and dedication of the majority of medical workers should be fully recognized.
Strengthening anti-corruption work in the field of medicine is an important part of promoting the high-quality development of the pharmaceutical industry, and is an important part of improving the construction of the pharmaceutical governance system. Over the years, the National Health Commission, as the lead unit of the inter-ministerial joint mechanism for correcting unhealthy practices in the field of medicine purchasing and marketing and in medical services, together with the relevant departments, has continued to strengthen the construction of the industry’s work style, combining the construction of the system, system construction and the implementation of the nine guidelines for clean practice, etc., and resolutely correcting unhealthy practices in the industry, and has achieved significant improvement. Accompanied by the overall strict governance of the Party, the Party’s clean government and the fight against corruption has made historic achievements, the industry in the field of medicine continues to improve the morale. However, at the same time, the problem of corruption in the field of medicine still exists, especially in recent years, the investigation and handling of some “key few”, key positions, the use of power to seek rents, large-scale acceptance of kickbacks, bribery and bribery cases, a serious dilution of the reform and development of the medical cause of the dividend, nibbling away at the rights and interests of the masses, not only to hamper the reform of medical care, medical insurance, medical cause of the development, but also affect the image of the industry. development, but also affect the image of the industry, but also jeopardize the interests of the vast majority of people in the field of medicine and health.
In order to further promote the development and progress of the pharmaceutical industry and safeguard the health rights and interests of the people, the National Health and Health Commission, together with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Security, the Audit Office, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, the General Administration of Market Supervision, the National Health Insurance Administration, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the State Administration for Disease Control and Prevention, the State Pharmaceutical Administration and other nine departments, jointly initiated the one-year centralized remediation of corruption in the field of national pharmaceuticals, which is problem-oriented and focuses on the pharmaceutical industry. Focusing on the “key minority” and key positions in the pharmaceutical industry, they resolutely remediate irregularities and violations of law, build a clean and upright industry atmosphere, and provide protection for the high-quality development of the pharmaceutical and health care industry.
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What are the main principles of this centralized effort?
Considerations?
A: The increasing difficulty in correcting corruption in the medical field requires the departments involved in the entire chain of medical purchases and sales to enhance their synergies and carry out joint management, and the concept of systemic management needs to be implemented throughout the work. Based on this, the Healthcare Commission said that it will promote the centralized rectification work from three principles.
First, comprehensive coverage and focus. The remediation covers the entire chain of production, circulation, sales, use and reimbursement in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the entire field of pharmaceutical administration, industry associations, medical and healthcare institutions, pharmaceutical production and management enterprises, and medical insurance funds, to achieve full coverage of the pharmaceutical field. In the focus of rectification, focusing on the “key minority”, key positions, especially the use of the pharmaceutical field of power rent-seeking, “gold sales”, transfer of benefits and other unlawful behavior.
The second is to focus on breakthroughs, correction and construction. For the “key minority”, the key positions of the corruption problem to focus on the breakthrough, the key issues, typical cases for investigation and verification, disposal, notification and analysis, the formation of a national focus on rectifying corruption in the field of medicine and the high-pressure situation. Adhere to the combination of clue disposal, problem rectification, industry governance, sound rules and regulations, improve the governance mechanism, standardize industry supervision, focus on strengthening the construction of long-term mechanism, to achieve the governance of corruption in the field of medicine systematization, standardization, normalization.
Third, unified implementation and hierarchical responsibility. Strictly implement the work responsibility, to ensure that the centralized rectification work of the requirements of the task on the ground to achieve results. Under the unified leadership of the national collaborative mechanism for the centralized rectification of corruption in the field of medicine, the relevant functional departments and local authorities will effectively assume the main responsibility for the centralized rectification, and will be responsible for the implementation at different levels. Institutions and units included in the scope of remediation bear direct responsibility for implementing the specific requirements of the higher authorities for the centralized remediation work, and strictly implementing the tasks of the centralized remediation work.
The centralized rectification will be in accordance with the above principles, the pharmaceutical industry to carry out the whole chain of the whole field of full-coverage systematic governance, to crack the systematic problems in the industry supervision, and solidly promote the pharmaceutical field of industry governance, to ensure that the rectification work to achieve results.
In view of the current corruption problems in the field of medicine, what are the key contents and measures to carry out the
What are the key contents and measures of the centralized rectification?
The content of this centralized rectification focuses on six aspects: first, the administrative departments in the field of medicine seeking rent with power; second, the “key minority” and key positions in medical and health institutions, as well as the “gold sales” of medicines, devices, consumables, etc.; third, the social organizations accepting the guidance of the administrative departments in the field of medicine taking advantage of their work; fourth, the problems related to the use of medical insurance funds; fifth, the problems related to the use of medical insurance funds; and fifth, the problems of the medical insurance funds. Thirdly, social organizations receiving management guidance from the administrative departments in the field of medicine are making use of their work facilities to gain benefits; fourthly, issues related to the use of the medical insurance fund; fifthly, the unlawful acts of pharmaceutical production and management enterprises in the field of purchase and sale; and sixthly, the violation of the “Nine Guidelines for Integrity of Healthcare Institutions Staff” by medical staff.
The Health Care Commission said that by adopting measures such as self-examination and self-correction, centralized remediation, summarization and rectification, it would carry out systematic governance of the outstanding corruption problems in the pharmaceutical industry across the entire field, chain and coverage, and establish and improve a series of long-term mechanisms to ensure that the work would be effective.
What is the progress of work since the deployment of the centralized remediation work?
What are the plans for the next steps?
A: Since July, several departments have taken action on pharmaceutical anti-corruption.
On July 12, the National Health Commission and other 10 departments held a national video conference on the centralized rectification of corruption in the field of medicine, focusing on the key aspects of production, supply, sales, use and reimbursement in the field of medicine and the “key few”, and made a key deployment of the centralized rectification work, with more than 4,000 people from various departments around the country attending the conference. The meeting was attended by more than 4,000 people from various departments around the country.
On July 28, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and the State Supervisory Commission (SSC) held a video conference on the centralized remediation work, focusing on the “key minority” in the field of pharmaceuticals and strengthening supervision, discipline and law enforcement, and deploying it within the discipline inspection and supervision system. At the same time, the NHSC has launched an “Internet+” review platform on the homepage of its official website to establish and smooth communication channels for the community.
The NHSC revealed that, according to the work deployment, all provinces have established a local collaborative mechanism for the centralized rectification of corruption in the field of medicine, formulated and issued local work programs, and convened meetings to make deployment arrangements. The relevant units in the localities have rapidly carried out self-examination and self-correction, disposed of the relevant issues, and announced a number of cases, forming a strict tone and atmosphere, anti-corruption has formed a broad consensus within the pharmaceutical industry, and the centralized remediation work is being carried out steadily.
In the next step, the centralized rectification work will be continuously promoted according to the overall arrangement, increasing the guidance and scheduling of the work, increasing the disposal and notification of typical problems, and ensuring the effectiveness of the rectification work.
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Post time: Aug-18-2023