National work conference on drug administration - essential medicines should reflect public goods attribute is put forward

The national health and family planning commission of the People's Republic of China

The 2016-06-21

On June 15, 2016, the national drug administration work conference held in Beijing. Liu qian said at the meeting, deputy director of the national health and family planning commission drug administration work to be in accordance with the overall deployment of health reform, from perfecting the systems and mechanisms, to strengthen the basic drug system, standardization of public hospital drug procurement, improve the ability of drug supply to ensure a breakthrough. Strengthening basic drugs used in medical institutions at all levels with priority, make it adapt to the basic medical and health care system, fair and promoting national basic drugs, realizing universal health important foundation and support for the fair.

Liu stressed that now it is thought that with the industry to phase out drug addition, the basic drug system can cancel or only in poor areas, this view is one-sided. Basic drugs can not equal to zero rate, and different forms of health care medicine also has difference, fair and is its most basic features, also reflect and carry out the responsibility of the government public service. Essential drugs should be fully embody the public goods attribute, enjoy the most preferential policies, ensure that even the most remote areas, the poorest people also reach and use. To pushing forward the construction of the basic drugs clinical comprehensive evaluation system established on the basis of the evidence-based medicine and drug economics evaluation system for basic drugs and the selection of adjustment mechanism, research and optimize the structure of the number of the list of essential medicines, and safeguard children special groups such as appropriate dosage forms and specifications, major public health needs. Conference pointed out that to promote drug centralized purchasing "pipes" change of work function, adhere to the purchasing public hospital drug classification, in the part of the market mechanism can effectively play a role of regulation, improve hospitals, health care for the main body participation in the drug purchase, promote fair trade, make the drug prices return to reasonable range; Part of competition in the market failure, government leading role, take drug policy measures, such as price negotiations, fixed-point production guarantee drug supply.

Around the meeting request, must complete policy cohesion, and promote national drug price negotiation results fall to the ground, take the initiative to coordinate other departments to play a role of policy linkage, strengthen the linkage between the negotiation result and health policy. Promote the construction of shortage of medical institutions and drug monitoring, drug monitoring system, establish and improve the shortage to ensure shortages drug supply security. For special populations such as children, the elderly, rare disease medication security work, to develop children's drugs, geriatric medicine clinical evaluation, further promote grass-roots essential medicines in remote areas, full guarantee pilot work.