General Secretary: "Connecting hospitals to reduce costs for patients"

(Dan Tri) - The goals set by the Politburo in the resolution on healthcare development, according to General Secretary To Lam, are to increase healthy life expectancy, reduce payments for patients, strengthen grassroots healthcare, and improve service quality.

The goals set by the Politburo in the breakthrough resolution on healthcare development, according to General Secretary To Lam, are to increase healthy life expectancy, reduce patient payments, strengthen grassroots healthcare and improve service quality.

On the morning of September 16, the Politburo held a national conference to disseminate and implement four important resolutions, including: Resolution No. 59 on International Integration in the New Situation; Resolution No. 70 on Ensuring National Energy Security to 2030, with a vision to 2045; Resolution No. 71 on Breakthroughs in Education and Training Development; Resolution No. 72 on Some Breakthrough Solutions to Strengthen the Protection and Care of People's Health.

Building a competitive and transparent electricity market mechanism

Speaking at the conference, General Secretary To Lam emphasized the consistent spirit of the four resolutions: to quickly shift from "issuing policies" to "executive governance", taking people and businesses as the center, and taking practical effectiveness as the measure.

“Each agency, organization and individual is responsible for turning the content of the resolutions into daily work, into specific action programs with resources, deadlines, measurement indicators, monitoring and accountability,” the General Secretary requested.

The General Secretary also suggested a number of key orientations, tasks and solutions for each resolution.

Regarding Resolution 59, General Secretary To Lam emphasized that international integration is a strategic driving force based on the decisive role of internal strength, increasing internal strength while taking advantage of external strength, closely linking integration with protecting national interests, both cooperating and fighting.

General Secretary To Lam speaks at the conference to disseminate four important resolutions of the Politburo (Photo: Doan Bac).

In addition, the resolution also identifies a shift from a receptive mindset to a contributing mindset, from the position of a behind-the-scenes country to the status of a rising country, pioneering in new fields.

According to the General Secretary, it is necessary to promote attracting high-quality FDI, especially from large global corporations that play a leading role in a number of important supply chains such as information technology, telecommunications, semiconductor chips, artificial intelligence, etc.;

The Politburo also encourages Vietnamese enterprises to invest and do business effectively abroad, building national brands of international stature.

With Resolution 70, the General Secretary emphasized that the core goal is that the energy system must be safe, stable, and have reliable backup; provide enough for production and life; shift towards green, low-emissions; operate intelligently on a digital platform and ensure reasonable and transparent costs.

“From now until 2030, we strive to have a minimum reserve capacity of 15%, significantly reduce power loss; increase the proportion of clean energy in accordance with planning; build competitive and transparent electricity market mechanisms with a solid roadmap,” said the General Secretary.

Regarding solutions, the General Secretary mentioned 10 key groups, including strong investment in transmission and storage - especially 500kV lines, smart grids, and piloting energy storage systems at bottlenecks.

The General Secretary directed the development of a competitive electricity market according to a roadmap, standardizing the long-term reference price mechanism, and enhancing transparency.

One solution noted by Party leaders is to protect vulnerable populations and ensure electricity for basic industries through targeted, time-bound support packages with transparent compensation sources.

Reduce achievement disease, fight against rampant extra tutoring

With Resolution 71, the General Secretary affirmed that education and training is the top national policy, the key driving force for national development. Investing in education is investing in, nurturing, and enhancing the “national spirit”, is investing in the future of the nation.

“This is the key of all key areas, the fundamental driving force for productivity growth, breakthroughs in national competitiveness, and nurturing development aspirations,” the General Secretary emphasized.

General Secretary To Lam emphasized the consistent spirit of the four resolutions is to quickly shift from "promulgating policies" to "managing implementation" (Photo: Doan Bac).

Among the key solutions proposed, the General Secretary emphasized the need to develop national output standards by education level and profession and implement mandatory accreditation.

Party leaders also requested to innovate programs and assessments, reduce achievement disease, combat widespread extra tutoring; implement standardized assessments, and focus on core skills.

Along with that, there needs to be a breakthrough policy for the teaching staff; promoting university autonomy coupled with accountability; upgrading vocational education linked to the supply chain, real learning - real work according to the dual model.

To transform digital education, the General Secretary requested the development of national open learning materials, lifelong electronic learning records, a secure examination platform, and ensuring data security.

In particular, it is necessary to pay attention to supporting disadvantaged groups with appropriate solutions; have a fund for skills development, a mechanism for ordering training according to regional and industry needs...

Encourage the construction of nursing homes for the elderly

With Resolution 72, the General Secretary oriented "Prevention is key - Base is foundation - People are the center".

The goals emphasized by the General Secretary are to increase healthy life expectancy, reduce patient payments, digitize the system, strengthen primary health care, and improve service quality and patient satisfaction.

Regarding solutions, the General Secretary requested to strengthen preventive medicine and public health. “Today at the exhibition, I saw that we have focused on developing vaccines. These are very effective solutions, the cheapest, and most widely used because prevention is better than cure. If we do this, the health sector and doctors will also have more free time,” the General Secretary shared.

Another important solution the General Secretary mentioned is to develop grassroots healthcare and family doctors by upgrading health stations, implementing basic service packages, and connecting hospitals.

Party and State leaders visit a number of booths displaying medical achievements (Photo: Quang Vinh).

According to the General Secretary, the family doctor model has been doing very well, not only in medical examination and treatment but also in health care and protection consultation.

The General Secretary cited the need to immediately advise on the simplest and most effective solutions such as physical exercise and sports. He also encouraged the orientation of building nursing homes for the elderly.

“A 70-80 year old person has children going to work and grandchildren going to school every day, but is very lonely at home, sometimes not doing any exercise. If there is a nursing home with a service of picking them up in the morning and dropping them off in the afternoon, they can go there to meet friends and colleagues, talk about sports, music, culture and arts, that would be great,” the General Secretary suggested that the Ministry of Health or the Ministry of Home Affairs could assign and combine to pilot this policy.

According to the General Secretary, these are proactive steps to prolong people's lives.

To develop a breakthrough in healthcare, the General Secretary also mentioned the solution of universal health insurance combined with value-based payment to expand benefits and reduce costs for patients.

The General Secretary requested promoting controlled hospital autonomy, service prices based on actual costs, public quality, transparent centralized purchasing, and fighting against group interests.

Along with that, it is necessary to ensure the security of pharmaceuticals, equipment, and vaccines through electronic bidding, and encourage domestic production that meets international standards.

Developing medical human resources is also an important solution noted by the General Secretary, through ensuring preferential treatment, training-practice linkage and mechanisms to attract medical human resources to the grassroots level.

In summary, the General Secretary emphasized that the country's new development momentum is formed from the organic connections between resolutions.

International integration is the door to the world. Stable and green energy is a necessary condition for production, schools and hospitals. High-quality education and training provides a team of future system engineers, doctors and public service administrators.

Modern healthcare, solid prevention, and good care help people stay healthy to study, to work, and to be creative.

Party and State leaders attending the National Conference disseminated four important resolutions of the Politburo (Photo: Quang Vinh).

“These pillars are simultaneously reinforced by transparent institutions, strict enforcement discipline, data-driven and smart resource allocation. When each gear operates in the right rhythm, the national development machine will accelerate steadily,” the General Secretary affirmed.

The General Secretary requested that each ministry, branch, locality, unit, cadre and party member immediately get to work with the spirit of "practice goes hand in hand with words" and "do not leave today's work for tomorrow". The leader must take responsibility for the results, not shirk or avoid.

"Every quarter and every year, we seriously review, publicly and transparently, and reward those who dare to think, dare to do, and dare to take responsibility for the common interest, while at the same time strictly handling violations and negativity," the General Secretary emphasized.

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