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Title: Policies Governing the Practice of the Health Professions and Health Care Delivery


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Policies Governing the Practice of the Health
Professions and Health Care Delivery
2
Professions Represented in the Group
  • Dentistry
  • Physical Therapy
  • Medical Technology
  • Medicine
  • Anesthesiologists
  • Surgeons
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Optometry
  • Pharmacy
  • Radiologic Technology

3
WHERE ARE WE NOW?
4
Key Issues Raised by Participants
  • Need to define the scope of practice of the
    different health professions and harmonize
    independent and interdependent roles
  • Need to amend current practice and regulatory
    laws in a more unified and collaborative process
  • Incentives and added benefits need to be provided
    to professionals practicing in LGUs especially in
    underserved areas and outskirts

5
Key Issues Raised by Participants
  • Ethical practice guidelines need to be redefined
    in accordance with scope of practice and very
    forcefully implemented
  • Need for policies on utilization and deployment
    of health professionals
  • Need for regulation of practice of nationals and
    foreign nationals within the Philippines
  • Ladderization of curricula need to be rationalized

6
Additional Questions Proposed to Be Tackled
  • Should PRC continue to regulate the different
    professions or should the professional
    organizations take over?
  • How do we deal with factors external to our
    profession which are impinging on our practice
    (environmental factors)?
  • Should we require health professionals to return
    service to the country before working abroad?

7
WHERE DO WE GO?
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Areas in which the Philippines can be competitive
in
  • High standards of training and certification
  • Desirable characteristics of our health human
    resource
  • Competent and globally competitive
  • Skilful
  • Knowledgeable
  • English-speaking
  • People centered / people-oriented
  • Caring
  • Industrious
  • Resilient and creative amid trying situations
  • Bayanihan spirit - sense of community
  • Sense of volunteerism

9
Factors that Facilitate Competitiveness
  • Periodic institutional visits of certain
    monitoring and professional bodies to ensure
    compliance to policies
  • Dentists
  • Medical technologists
  • Pharmacists
  • High quality educational standards
  • Characteristics of health professionals
  • Professionalism and self-discipline
  • Adaptable and flexible

10
Barriers to Being Competitive
  • Demand Barriers from the point of view of the
    client
  • Utilization factors
  • Business controlling practice
  • Quacks operating at barangay levels
  • Absence of some health services in the barangay
  • Patients are misinformed and unable to make right
    decisions regarding their health

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Barriers to Being Competitive
  • Supply Barriers from the point of view of the
    provider/health professional
  • Human resource development
  • Absence of plantilla in government units
  • Inadequate compensation and benefits
  • Lack of support - financial, moral and technical
    training particularly in community practice
  • Health professionals are maldistributed and
    under-utilized
  • Labor-export policy of the government and other
    related issues

12
Barriers to Being Competitive
  • Supply Barriers from the point of view of the
    provider/health professional
  • Existing laws/proposed bills
  • Outdated regulatory laws
  • Criminalization of violations by health
    professionals malpractice bill
  • Very restrictive cost of materials and supplies

13
Barriers to Being Competitive
  • Environment Barriers
  • Commercialization of health education
  • Misguided priorities of patients shaped by the
    environment and culture (e.g., buy cellphone load
    rather than invest in their health)
  • Poverty clients unable to pay for services
  • Culture of pwede-pwede na half-baked health
    professionals
  • LGUs do not prioritize health - too much politics
    involved

14
HOW DO WE GET THERE?
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Legislative Proposals to be acted upon by the
Professional Organizations
  • Self-regulation/self-policing through active
    deputization
  • Alternative mechanisms to improve monitoring of
    health care professions and delivery of health
    care services
  • Work on the amendment/repeal of respective
    regulatory laws
  • Integration of professionals into national
    organizations
  • Support and educate lawmakers reorientation of
    politicians
  • Enlighten and empower the citizenry in order to
    assist in achieving this goal
  • Join the barangay development council
  • Health workers engaged in the policy development
    process

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Legislative Proposals to be acted upon by
Different Government Agencies
  • Congress/Senate
  • Passage of amended/repealed regulatory laws for
    the health professions
  • Increase government budget spending for health
  • Upgrade of salary, compensation, incentives and
    benefits for all health professions
  • Reduction of tax obligations of health providers
    and importers of equipment and supplies
  • Promote an advocacy law providing incentives to
    maintain basic wellness and health promotion
  • Give disincentives for those who encroach on the
    practice of other health professionals
  • Pass a good citizenry act

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Legislative Proposals to be acted upon by
Different Government Agencies
  • LGUs
  • Creation of government plantilla for all
    professions under PRC those with board exams
  • DOLE
  • Review implications of labor-export policy
  • DOH
  • Strengthen regulation of health related
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