HSRI : Public - Private Partnership in Universal Health Coverage
Channel: ็HSRI THAI
Date: 31/01/2012

Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2012 Presentation,

Most private healthcare providers in Thailand are concentrated in the urban areas where big hospitals are located with few primary care providers. The National Health Security Office (NHSO) tries to promote private clinics to participate in the UC Scheme as Contracted Unit for Primary Care (CUP) to provide comprehensive health services to UC beneficiaries in urban settings. These comprehensive health services include common curative services, preventive and health promotion (P&P) services, and rehabilitative services both in clinic and community. This is quite a challenging assignment since normally private clinics will focus only on curative services. However, the NHSO can get some success stories of these private clinics which participants can learn from these experiences. This field visit will bring participants to expose to a network of private clinics of Bhumibol Adulyadej Hospital (Royal Thai Air Force public hospital).