Various Regulations are Published on the Healthcare Sector
The Regulation on Private Healthcare Institutions Providing Oral and Dental Health Services (Oral and Dental Health Regulation), the Regulation Amending the Regulation on Private Healthcare Institutions Providing Outpatient Diagnosis and Treatment (Outpatient Diagnosis and Treatment Regulation) and the Regulation Amending the Regulation on Private Hospitals (Private Hospitals Regulation) entered into force through its publication in the Official Gazette dated 06.10.2022 and numbered 31975. Main novelties brought by the Regulation are summarized below.
- Pursuant to the amendments made to the Outpatient Diagnosis and Treatment Regulation and the Private Hospitals Regulation, doctors may diagnose and treat their patients who apply to their clinics in medical centers or private hospitals, provided that an annual contract is concluded and that there is doctor vacancy in the relevant specialty.
- In the event that medical centers or private hospitals do not have doctor vacancy, they may sign a contract with up to 15% of the total number of doctors in the specialties registered in their licenses and/or operating permits. However, more than one third of the total number of staff in the relevant specialty cannot be contracted.
- Medical centers and private hospitals providing services within this scope must submit the contracts executed with the doctors to the provincial health directorate until 31.01.2023.
- Additionally, with another amendment to the Private Hospitals Regulation, faculty members of medicine and dentistry faculties of private universities may work in the vacant doctor positions of private hospitals excluding university hospitals and cooperating private hospitals, provided that it complies with article 12 of the Law on Execution of the Practice of Medicine and Medical Sciences numbered 1219.
- The Oral and Dental Health Regulation abolished the Regulation on Private Healthcare Institutions Providing Oral and Dental Health Services published in the Official Gazette dated 03.02.2015 and numbered 29256.
- The Oral and Dental Health Regulation applies to private healthcare institutions providing oral and dental health services.
- The Oral and Dental Health Regulation defines healthcare institutions as private clinics, polyclinics, centers and hospitals providing oral and dental health services, and sets the criteria for real and legal persons who can operate healthcare institutions.
- Along with the physical standards that healthcare institutions shall meet, application procedures for preliminary permit, license and activity permit are set out.
- Furthermore, various provisions are stipulated regarding the medical staff to be employed in the healthcare institution, their principles of operation, the audits to be carried out and administrative fines that may be imposed.
- Healthcare institutions licensed before the date of entry into force of the Oral and Dental Health Regulation are subject to the provisions of the regulation at the time of licensing in terms of physical requirements. However, medical equipment and personnel standards shall comply with the provisions of this regulation until 31.12.2023.
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