Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan requested the Heads of units under the Ministry to thoroughly grasp and promote the role and enhance the responsibility of the heads in leading and directing the implementation of reform tasks. administrative procedures; Associate administrative procedure reform with emulation assessment of units and leaders.
At the headquarters of the Ministry of Health, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan chaired a conference to implement the Ministry of Health’s administrative procedure reform in the first 7 months of the year and the key plan for the last 5 months of 2023.
Attending the conference were Permanent Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen and Deputy Minister Tran Van Thuan; Representatives of leaders of Departments, Bureaus, Ministry Offices, Ministry Inspectorates, and units under the Ministry of Health.
Efforts to reform administrative procedures in the health sector
Reporting at the conference held on August 23, Dr. Ha Anh Duc, Chief of the Ministry Office – Chief of the Office of the Party Personnel Committee of the Ministry of Health said that about the direction and administration work, the Ministry of Health issued documents guidance and direction on the implementation of administrative procedure control tasks fully and promptly such as: Directive No. 04/CT-BYT dated July 20, 2023 of the Minister of Health on continue to promote reform of administrative procedures and improve the business environment associated with digital transformation at the Ministry of Health ; Official dispatches on rectifying, strengthening responsibility and improving the efficiency of administrative procedure reform, promptly removing obstacles and difficulties for people and businesses; rectify and speed up the progress of handling administrative procedure dossiers;
Official dispatch sent to the People’s Committees of provinces/cities requesting to coordinate and prepare conditions to ensure the reception and settlement of administrative procedures immediately after the Ministry of Health promulgates legal documents (VBQPPL) Implement decentralization plan in resolving administrative procedures within the scope of management functions of the Ministry of Health…
Dr. Ha Anh Duc said that regarding the announcement and publicization of administrative procedures, from the beginning of 2023 to July 30, the Ministry of Health has issued 9 Decisions announcing newly issued, amended, supplemented or replaced/announced administrative procedures. ; Immediately after the Decision announcing administrative procedures was issued, the Ministry of Health updated and publicized the national database on administrative procedures fully and on time according to regulations. At the same time, units of the Ministry of Health are organizing and implementing the tasks of reviewing and evaluating administrative procedures in 2023 according to the plan approved by the Ministry’s leadership.
Relevant units assigned the task have organized to receive and process feedback from people, organizations and businesses with recommendations on administrative procedures on the Government Electronic Information Portal and the National Public Service Portal. Appropriate feedback from the people is forwarded to the authorities to respond according to their authority; Develop and promulgate a plan to inspect administrative reform work, including inspection of administrative reform work at units under and under the Ministry of Health; promulgate the Plan to strengthen information and communication work on administrative reform in 2023; propagate administrative reform according to assigned functions and tasks.
“The Ministry of Health maintains the operation of the Receiving and Returning Results Department for handling administrative procedures on the 1st Floor/Building A of the Ministry of Health headquarters with full equipment to ensure smooth operation for receiving and returning results. The results of resolving administrative procedures, meeting the needs of people and businesses; the situation of receiving and returning results of resolving administrative procedures at the Ministry of Health from the beginning of 2023 to now shows that the number of administrative procedures settlement documents received higher than last year” – Dr. Ha Anh Duc said.
Regarding the situation and results of implementing the reduction and simplification of regulations related to business activities implementing Resolution No. 68/NQ-CP of the Government, the Ministry of Health said, implementing Decision No. 1661/ Decision-TTg of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Health needs to simplify 155 administrative procedures and 14 condition requirements related to business activities. As of December 31, 2022, the Ministry of Health has abolished 08 administrative procedures; cut down, simplify 10 administrative procedures…
Implementing the Prime Minister’s Decision promulgating the Plan to review and simplify internal administrative procedures in the state administrative system for the period 2022-2025, the Ministry of Health has issued the Plan to review and simplify administrative procedures internal affairs of the Ministry of Health in the period 2022-2025 and establishing a Working Group and a Working Group to assist the Working Group to review and simplify internal administrative procedures of the Ministry of Health in the period 2022-2025; Based on the guidance of the Government Office, the Ministry of Health has actively reviewed, compiled and implemented tasks as required.
In the last 5 months of 2023, the Ministry of Health will focus on prioritizing resources to accelerate the progress of building and amending legal documents to implement reform plans at the request of the Government and Prime Minister; Completing 100% integration of public services of units into the Information System for resolving administrative procedures of the Ministry of Health;
Implement solutions to correct and speed up the processing of documents, ensuring a reduction in the number of overdue documents and an increase in the number of documents completed before and on time; Organize research and propose plans to reduce and simplify internal administrative procedures after deciding to announce internal administrative procedures in the state administrative system within the scope of management functions of the Ministry of Health. The Ministry signed and promulgated.
Enhance the responsibility of leaders in leading and directing the implementation of administrative procedure reform tasks
At the conference, Permanent Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen, Deputy Minister Tran Van Thuan and representatives of units also stated the shortcomings, limitations, causes, difficulties and obstacles that need to be resolved when implementing the work. administrative procedure reform of the Ministry of Health.
Through listening to the opinions discussed and exchanged at the conference, Minister Dao Hong Lan highly appreciated and acknowledged the efforts of units under the Ministry of Health in implementing administrative procedure reform recently.
Speaking at the meeting, Minister Dao Hong Lan requested that the Heads of units need to thoroughly grasp and direct the promotion of the role and enhance the responsibility of the heads of units in leading and directing the implementation of responsibilities. administrative procedure reform;
Focus on prioritizing resources to accelerate the progress of developing and amending legal documents to implement reform plans at the request of the Government and Prime Minister; Review and immediately deploy effective solutions to minimize the number of overdue administrative procedures documents, encourage prepayment…
“It is recommended that units continue to review and carry out prescribed tasks related to administrative procedures such as issues of announcement, publicity, restructuring, receiving and handling petitions from voters, people and businesses. businesses related to administrative procedures, digitalization issues, connecting online public services, one-stop mechanism, national one-stop shop according to the criteria prescribed by the Government… We must consider this as our own business. , we must combine administrative procedure reform with the implementation of professional expertise” – Minister Dao Hong Lan emphasized.
The Minister assigned the Legal Department to coordinate with units to continue advising on amending and supplementing amended and supplementing legal documents and applying shortened orders and procedures in accordance with the provisions of law on construction, promulgate legal documents under the direction of the Prime Minister; The Ministry’s Office coordinated with the Department of Personnel and Organization to consolidate the Steering Group on administrative procedure reduction directly directed by Deputy Minister Do Xuan Tuyen;
Emphasize the establishment of an evaluation mechanism for the organization and implementation of administrative procedure reform in particular and administrative reform in general with annual emulation evaluation of the unit and the head of the unit, the Minister of Health. We recommend that units regularly and periodically evaluate administrative procedure reform in their units; Timely praise units and individuals for good performance in organizing and implementing tasks and conversely strictly handle organizations and individuals lacking a sense of responsibility;
With some tasks still slow and not reaching the required rate, Minister Dao Hong Lan proposed that based on the identified shortcomings, the units need to review to make this task better in time. next.
At the same time, units continue to coordinate with relevant agencies to publicize and promote propaganda to people and businesses about the implementation of administrative procedure reforms of the Ministry of Health; linking administrative procedure reform with medical digital transformation.
Tess Schulist