On September 13, Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin asked Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew to establish a committee tasked with improving health services and facilitating people's access to medical examination and treatment.
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| Thai Government Spokesperson Chai Wacharonke. |
According to Thai Government Spokesperson Chai Wacharonke, Mr. Srettha expects the Thai Ministry of Public Health to come up with solutions to make it easier for people to access health services. For example, removing the requirement for patients to go to the hospital where they registered for medical care, or implementing digital hospital transfer services to reduce the paperwork burden for patients who need to be transferred to other hospitals for treatment.
Mr. Chai also said that reducing waiting time at hospitals and delivering medicine to patients without forcing them to go to the hospital should also be implemented to reduce costs and help people access health care services more conveniently.
“Patients should not be required to go to the hospital they have registered for. It should be like private health insurance services, where policyholders can go to any hospital. This is a new patient-centric service,” he said.
For his part, Thai Health Minister Cholnan announced that specific guidelines will be issued and announced on September 14. He said that these guidelines will be divided into 13 implementation groups, in line with the Thai Prime Minister 's health policy focusing on efficiency.
He also announced the establishment of a National Health System Development Committee chaired by the Prime Minister of Thailand, which will work with other agencies to guide public health policies.
Mr Cholnan plans to discuss recruitment and management of human resources with the Civil Service Commission (CSC). At the same time, the Ministry of Health will submit a law to help them address their human resource needs. “The Ministry of Health will have a dedicated human resource committee and a special law that will exempt the ministry from the CSC regulations,” he said.
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