The Ministry of Home Affairs sets out directions for the arrangement of public service units, educational and medical facilities.

Bộ Nội vụ nêu định hướng sắp xếp các đơn vị sự nghiệp công lập, cơ sở giáo dục, y tế- Ảnh 1. — The People's Committees of provinces and cities shall proactively develop plans to arrange public service units, ensuring compliance with the orientation, send them to the Standing Committee of the Government Party Committee for consideration and decision, and send them to the Ministry of Home Affairs for synthesis before September 25, 2025.

Implementing Official Dispatch No. 59-CV/BCĐ dated September 12, 2025 of the Central Steering Committee on summarizing Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW, the Ministry of Home Affairs has just sent a document to the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities, requesting to urgently review and develop a plan to arrange public service units within the scope of management, ensuring compliance with the orientation of the Steering Committee in Official Dispatch No. 59-CV/BCĐ, send it to the Standing Committee of the Government Party Committee for consideration, decision and send it to the Ministry of Home Affairs for synthesis before September 25, 2025.

Some specific arrangement orientations are clearly stated by the Ministry of Home Affairs. In particular, regarding the arrangement of public service units: Each province and centrally-run city shall have no more than 3 Project Management Boards under the Provincial People's Committee; based on practical requirements of the locality, it is possible to establish inter-commune and ward project management boards; commune-level project management boards if necessary. Project management boards operate under the financial autonomy mechanism, self-guaranteeing operating expenses.

Arrange and streamline the internal focal points of public service units under the provincial People's Committee and public service units under departments and other administrative organizations under the provincial People's Committee; restructure or dissolve ineffective units.

Research on organizing 01 commune-level public service unit to provide basic and essential public services to local people (in the fields of culture, sports, information, communication, environment, agriculture , etc.).

Merging vocational education centers and continuing education centers

Regarding the arrangement of educational and training facilities : Propose the arrangement and adjustment of high schools, middle schools, primary schools, inter-level schools, and public kindergartens if necessary.

Merge vocational education centers and continuing education centers into vocational secondary schools equivalent to high schools under the Department of Education and Training to provide public career services in inter-ward and communal areas.

Each province or centrally-run city shall have no more than 03 vocational schools (excluding schools that are self-sufficient in regular expenditure or more).

Regarding medical facility arrangement, localities need to focus on perfecting the preventive health system.

Each province and centrally-run city has at least one specialized hospital; a geriatric hospital or a general hospital with a geriatric department.

Establish commune, ward, and special zone health stations under the People's Committees at the commune level and medical examination points on the basis of previous commune-level health stations to meet the needs of disease prevention, primary health care, and basic medical examination and treatment for people in the area.

Transfer the former district-level medical centers and general hospitals to the Department of Health to organize medical care and treatment according to inter-ward and commune areas.

Completing the roadmap for calculating public service prices, promoting financial autonomy

Complete the roadmap for calculating public service prices (calculating full salary costs, direct costs, management costs and depreciation of fixed assets, other costs according to the provisions of the law on prices) according to the provisions of the law on financial autonomy of public service units, to serve as a basis for ordering or bidding for the provision of public service, implementing financial autonomy of public service units, and reducing civil servants receiving salaries from the state budget.

Proactively develop plans and policies to encourage socialization, create favorable conditions to support non-public units and investors to participate in and provide basic and essential public services (such as education, healthcare, culture, sports, information, communications, environment, agriculture, etc.) to ensure compliance with socio-economic development conditions in the area.

Previously, in Official Dispatch No. 59-CV/BCĐ, the Central Steering Committee on summarizing Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW requested the Standing Committee of the Government Party Committee to lead and direct ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and agencies under the Government to continue reviewing the organizational structure, ensuring effective, efficient, and effective operations; focusing on the following contents:

Review, research, propose to issue, amend, supplement or issue under authority legal documents to create a legal basis for implementing the arrangement of public service units, schools, medical facilities, state-owned enterprises; and arrange organizations within ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and government agencies.

Review and clearly define the functions, tasks and powers of agencies, units and organizations, especially agencies and organizations after mergers and acquisitions, and propose and make reasonable adjustments if necessary.

Review and perfect the institution to continue decentralization and delegation of power between the Government, the Prime Minister and ministries and branches, between the Government, the Prime Minister and local authorities, between heads of ministries and branches and local authorities, between local authorities at all levels, between provincial and communal People's Committees and specialized agencies under the People's Committees at the same level, between specialized agencies under provincial People's Committees and specialized agencies under the People's Committees at the communal level (review all previously decentralized and delegated contents and tasks); promote administrative procedure reform to ensure thoroughness, efficiency, rationality, and conformity with the 2-level administrative unit model.

Continue to review and streamline the organizational structure in ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and government agencies, especially department-level units and bureaus under ministries and branches, to ensure efficiency, effectiveness, and efficiency, and avoid duplication of functions and tasks. Strictly implement the policy of not establishing divisions within departments under ministries and branches; in special cases, for departments under ministries and branches that have recently merged or consolidated 3 or more department-level focal points or have a large number of staff (45 or more staff), it is possible to consider establishing divisions (implemented in accordance with regulations, each division has 15 or more people).

The Ministry of Finance shall preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Home Affairs, relevant ministries and branches managing state-owned enterprises to study and propose plans to reorganize state-owned enterprises and the internal apparatus of enterprises under the management of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies and localities in accordance with the new situation. Synthesize the results and advise the Standing Committee of the Government Party Committee to report to the Politburo, the Secretariat and the Steering Committee.

The Ministry of Home Affairs shall preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance and relevant ministries and branches to study and propose plans to rearrange public service units under the management of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies and localities. Coordinate with the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Health and relevant ministries and branches to study and propose plans to rearrange schools, educational institutions and medical facilities under the management of the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Health, ministries, branches and localities in accordance with the new situation. Advise the Standing Committee of the Government Party Committee to report to the Politburo, the Secretariat and the Steering Committee.

The Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Education and Training coordinates with the Standing Committees of the Party Committees of ministries, branches, agencies, units, and organizations at the Central level and the Standing Committees of the Provincial and Municipal Party Committees (with the authority to lead and manage universities) to research and propose party organization models in universities to ensure they are consistent and synchronous with the arrangement of universities, and report to the Steering Committee (through the Central Organizing Committee).

Thu Giang

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