Jiangxi Beijing Provincial Health Commission Industry News Launches Medical Social Work Pilot Project

News from our newspaper (Reporter Cui Fang, Special Correspondent Yao Tienan, Yao Xiujun) The Beijing Municipal Health Commission and 6 other departments have jointly issued the “Implementation Opinions on the Development of Medical Social Work.” Starting this year, Beijing will pilot medical social work and plans to achieve full coverage of medical social work in medical institutions by 2025.

On October 26, Gao Xiaojun, first-level inspector and press spokesman for the Beijing Municipal Health Commission, presented at the relevant media communication meeting that medical social work refers to the use of social work values. and professional methods in the field of health to help Patients and their families prevent, alleviate and solve emotional, psychological and social problems caused by diseases, improve medical effects and promote professional activities for public health. In 2019, a comparative study of 15 medical institutions in the city and 23 units in 4 other provinces and cities of Beijing found that the introduction of medical social work in the health sector leads to improving medical services, strengthening humanistic care, promote doctor-patient communication and build doctor-patient harmony. Relationship; leads to the practice of the concept of great health and promotes the transformation of the medical and health services system from disease-centered to health-centered.

The “Opinions” clarified the content of the service, the positioning, the talent pool, the promotion channels for professional talents, the direction of the training of professional talent and the guarantee mechanism for their development of medical social work. Encourage medical institutions to deploy full-time medical social workers through social recruitment, department transfer, and purchasing services, and orient social volunteers and community workers to engage in medical social work through recruitment or cooperation in Projects. It is necessary to include medical social jobs in the management of professional technical positions.

The “Rulings” indicated that in 2020, Beijing will pilot medical social work in some general hospitals, pediatrics, mental health, oncology, rehabilitation and other specialized hospitals, as well as community health service centers; In 2022, gradually promote it in the city’s medical and health institutions; In 2025, achieve full coverage of medical social work in the city’s medical institutions.