Long-awaited China medical reform introduced in the new programme will

"Saviors" new health reform programme is expected to be announced in January 2009.

Including medical insurance, essential drugs, primary medical care system, public service equalization, public hospitals, five of the reform of the supporting programme will also be at the "debut".

The Communist Party Secretary of the Ministry of health, Ministry of health before high-strength development of concrete, clear, with operations of the three-year programme recently implemented with new health reform programme together.

Called "new health reform programme" of the deepening of the medical and health system reform Act (draft) published on October 14, only a month to receive comments and suggestions are more than thousand articles.

This programme can resolve "the difficulty and high cost of" a social focus.

Health reform coordination group experts revealed: the revised new health reform programme has not changed the basic guiding principles, a clear government financial investment in health in focus areas are public health, rural health and rural health development; while the specific content of the adjustment is not great; including essential medicines and hospital reform is key.

The new programme will publish national essential medicines list, determine the varieties and quantities, the establishment of the production system, unified price, bidding fixed-point production or centralized purchasing, direct distribution, proportionate provisions of hospitals.

Public hospital reform of the guiding principles are "separating, MO apart."

In the comments, some parts of the pilot study has quietly, Guangdong, Shenzhen, Shaoguan and Zhanjiang start canceling public hospitals through the addition of 15 per cent.

Started in 1978 health reform, China experienced health insurance reform, implementation of the reform of the "property" and reflection and reconstruction phases.

In the meantime, the Ministry of health has proposed that the Government only some public hospitals and other medical institutions of market reform. However in 2003 "SARS" crisis of the bitter lessons and 2004 published by the national health service survey report confirms that people "expensive, difficult," and other practical contradictions, changed the guiding idea of health reform.

In May 2005, the Ministry of health, stated: "the market of non-medical reform direction" medical reform aims to construct a benefit "national" medical security platform.

Since then, the national launch in town resident medical insurance, and the decision in February this year, the pilot cities from last year, 88 expanded to more than half of the country, the city is the "block" in the medical insurance network in the town of non-residents and the urban employees enjoy medical insurance.

At the same time, in the establishment of rural universal new CMS, currently covering a metres, of more than seven million County farmers a doctor can be reimbursed, the country has had nine million passengers enjoy medical compensation amounting to $ 91 billion yuan.

Next year the new CMS will achieve comprehensive coverage and financing standards from $ 50 per person per year to 100 RMB, in which the Government grants standard raise to $ 80 by $ 40.

Some experts claim that China's basic medical insurance, basic medical insurance in town resident and new CMS has been realized on the full coverage and rural residents, the formation of the basic medical insurance system, but the national framework are still fails the second servicers, not to any medical care.

In addition, to improve health care resource layout, narrowing the gap between medical facilities, enhance the technical level of the medical quality supervision are still faces many problems and difficulties, "the new health reform programme" to go forward.