Beijing, August 8 (Reporter Du Yan) Beijing medical social workers have shown a good momentum of development, up to now, there are 28 medical and health institutions carrying out medical social work in the city, including 101 tertiary medical institutions, an increase of 54% over 2019. This year, Beijing has selected and cultivated 184 demonstration projects of medical social work, covering different diseases such as infectious diseases, children's blood diseases, cleft lip and palate, obstetrics, cognitive impairment, and adolescent emotional disorders in different fields such as hospital wards, emergency departments, and outpatient clinics, providing patients and their families in need with humanistic services such as psychological counseling, hardship assistance, and social support, so as to make medicine warmer.
Today, the reporter learned from the Beijing Municipal Health Commission that in accordance with the idea of "high-level planning, overall promotion, systematic layout, and standardized development", the committee combined with the actual health work of the capital to explore the development model of medical social workers, build a medical social work development system, expand the development pattern of medical social workers, strengthen the construction of medical social workers talent team, and Beijing medical social workers showed a good momentum of development.
Ye Xiaomin, deputy director and spokesperson of the Beijing Municipal Health Commission, said that up to now, there are 101 medical and health institutions carrying out medical social work in the city, including 54 tertiary medical institutions, an increase of 2019% over 184; There are 306 medical social workers in the city, including 194 in tertiary medical institutions, an increase of 2019% over 131.
Demonstration and cultivation, and exploration of medical social work development models
In order to continuously improve medical services and explore the development model of medical social work, this year the Beijing Municipal Health Commission selected and cultivated 25 medical social work demonstration projects, covering different diseases such as infectious diseases, pediatric blood diseases, cleft lip and palate, obstetrics, cognitive impairment, adolescent emotional disorders, etc. in different fields such as hospital wards, emergency departments, and outpatient clinics, integrating rehabilitation management, chronic disease management, palliative care, multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment teams, etc., based on the needs of patients and their families, combined with clinical pathways, embedded management processes, using social work cases, Professional methods such as groups provide psychological counseling, hardship assistance, social support and other humanistic services for patients and their families in need, improving patients' medical experience and making medicine warmer. Up to now, more than 4000,5700 people have been served in cases, more than 37000,<> in small groups, and more than <>,<> in the community.
Coordinate and promote the construction of a medical social work development system
The Beijing Municipal Health Commission has built a medical social work development system in which medical and health institutions at all levels are coordinated and actively explored by public health units in accordance with the development path of "point" and "area", carefully cultivated and gradually rolled out.
On the basis of the previous pilot, starting in 2022, Beijing will gradually promote medical social work in medical and health institutions in the city. Up to now, there are 33 general hospitals, 27 specialized hospitals, 7 traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, 33 primary health service institutions and 1 public health institution that have provided medical social work services.
For community health service organizations with relatively weak development foundation for medical social workers, Beijing has increased support, carried out research projects, promoted the establishment of a docking mechanism between community social workers and medical social workers, and explored the realization path of medical social workers at the grassroots level
Focusing on the needs of health development, Beijing adheres to the problem-oriented approach, and promotes the coordinated promotion and integrated development of medical social work and the improvement of medical services, family doctor contracting, chronic disease management, integration of medical and elderly care, and health promotion.
Hierarchical classification to create a composite medical social worker talent team
According to reports, Beijing medical social workers mainly have three sources such as recruitment, job transfer, and purchase of services, according to the needs of post competence, according to the combination of online and offline, theory and practice, supervision and training parallel ideas, to create a group of composite medical social workers suitable for health needs.
For new and transferred medical social workers, Beijing conducts general training and records high-quality courses to improve basic business literacy.
For medical social workers with certain practical experience, Beijing organizes a series of training such as group supervision and workshops through demonstration projects and on-site projects, and continuously improves their post competence through a combination of theoretical learning and on-site observation.
For medical social workers with rich practical experience, Beijing carried out the first batch of supervision selection training, carried out companionship supervision practice training, and established a professional and localized medical social worker supervision team. Strengthen scientific research capabilities, cultivate scientific research thinking, encourage practical research, supervise and promote learning through research, and cultivate a group of high-level medical social work talents.
Social participation to expand the development pattern of medical social workers
Beijing supports the development of industry associations and provides professional support in talent training, industry standards, resource integration, etc.; Strengthen cooperation between medical schools and promote the establishment of joint training mechanisms between universities and medical institutions; Link social resources, cooperate with Hanhong Foundation and other public welfare organizations and institutions, carry out medical social work residency projects, send medical social workers to medical and health institutions that are willing to develop and lack professional services, and give full play to the advantages of all parties, work in the same direction, accurately cultivate, and stimulate the endogenous force of the development of medical social workers in the units they are assigned.
Up to now, the first batch of 30 medical and health institutions has been stationed, and the second batch of 15 selected workers has been launched, effectively expanding the development pattern of medical social workers.
The Beijing Municipal Health Commission said that in the next step, it will focus on the key tasks of health and health, from the height of promoting the governance capacity of the health governance system, innovate development ideas, improve development mechanisms, open up development situations, fully promote Beijing's medical social work, and help the high-quality development of the capital's health and health undertakings. (End)