The Health Commission issued a document! A number of hospitals are adding this clinic

Source: | National Health Commission

Health commissions and Chinese Medicine Bureaus of provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps:

In order to fully implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress and the Second and Third Plenary sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee, in accordance with the requirements of the "Implementation Plan for Healthy Weight Management Year" activities of the National Health Commission and other departments, promote the construction of healthy weight management clinics in medical institutions, and provide high-quality healthy weight management services for the people, the following requirements are put forward for the establishment and management of healthy weight management clinics:

一、actively and orderly promote the establishment of healthy weight management outpatient clinics

Encourage qualified tertiary general hospitals, children's hospitals, traditional Chinese medicine hospitals (including integrated Chinese and Western medicine hospitals, minority medical hospitals, the same below) to set up a healthy weight management clinic. The National Health Commission, the National Bureau of Traditional Chinese Medicine (administration), provincial (regional, municipal) general hospitals, children's hospitals, and traditional Chinese medicine hospitals should basically achieve full coverage of healthy weight management outpatient Settings by the end of June 2025. Hospitals that carry out outpatient services for healthy weight management should strengthen the coordination of work and the allocation of professional resources in the whole hospital, set up a centralized healthy weight management clinic, equipped with relatively fixed doctors in pediatrics, general medicine, endocrinology, clinical nutrition, psychiatry, cardiovascular medicine, gastroenterology, general surgery, rehabilitation medicine, traditional Chinese medicine and other departments to receive treatment, and rationally arrange the frequency of outpatient services. Encourage hospitals with strong comprehensive strength to set up obesity prevention and control centers to provide in-patient healthy weight management related services.

二、Optimize the service model of healthy weight management in hospitals

The hospital should strengthen publicity and guidance, improve the appointment diagnosis and treatment, pre-examination triage and referral mechanism, and guide the masses with abnormal weight in need to go to the healthy weight management clinic. It is necessary to adhere to classified service management, and provide professional guidance and support for people with abnormal weight management related to healthy weight evaluation, clinical nutrition, sports rehabilitation, psychiatry, and traditional Chinese medicine. To provide professional medical services for patients with obesity and nutritional disorders; Provide specialized treatment for patients with complications. Personalized health weight management services should be provided for key groups such as the elderly, children, pregnant women, patients with chronic diseases, and occupational groups with abnormal weight. It is necessary to adhere to the health-centered concept, strengthen multidisciplinary comprehensive intervention, allocate relevant professional forces around the needs of people's healthy weight management and diagnosis and treatment services, and provide patients with joint outpatient and multidisciplinary consultation services. It is necessary to adhere to the integration of medical and prevention, the advancing of the threshold, the sinking of the center of gravity, and the hierarchical management, build a diagnosis and treatment collaboration network around healthy weight management, encourage and support conditional primary medical and health institutions to set up healthy weight management clinics, provide education, follow-up, health management and other services, optimize the referral process, and promote the construction of a whole-process service system.

三、Strive to improve the quality of healthy weight management services

The hospital should strengthen the construction of the healthy weight management talent team, rationally allocate professional personnel, clarify the job responsibilities and increase training efforts to improve the professional level. It is necessary to formulate and improve the outpatient management system and work procedures for healthy weight management, guide medical staff to follow the guiding principles of healthy weight management, the guiding principles of nutrition and exercise for chronic diseases such as hypertension, and the guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of obesity, provide appropriate lifestyle interventions such as diet, exercise, mental and psychological support, rational use of related drugs, and select appropriate treatment modalities strictly in accordance with indications. Local health and traditional Chinese medicine departments should promote the construction of quality control systems related to healthy weight management and strengthen quality control and professional guidance. Adhere to digital empowerment, and encourage qualified hospitals to carry out follow-up, monitoring, health guidance and other services through Internet technology, artificial intelligence, and wearable devices.

四、We will promote the improvement of support and guarantee policies

Local health and traditional Chinese medicine departments should increase policy support and technical guidance to provide support for the construction and development of healthy weight management clinics. Hospitals should improve the internal management system and fully mobilize the enthusiasm of medical staff engaged in healthy weight management related diagnosis and treatment services. It is necessary to intensify science popularization and publicity work, improve the public's health literacy of scientific weight management, and create a good atmosphere for healthy weight management.

Provincial health and traditional Chinese medicine departments should strengthen work scheduling, timely grasp the construction of healthy weight management clinics in hospitals under their jurisdiction, and summarize and promote beneficial experience and typical practices in their jurisdictions. The National Health Commission and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine will provide timely guidance on the relevant work and continue to promote the implementation of the work.

General Office of the National Health Commission State Bureau of Traditional Chinese Medicine Department