Rectifying the misconduct in the field of pharmaceutical purchase and sales and medical services, 14 departments jointly issued a document.

The National Health Commission, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Commerce, National Audit Office, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, State Taxation Administration, State Administration for Market Regulation, National Healthcare Security Administration, State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, National Health Commission, and National Medical Products Administration jointly issued the "Key Points for Correcting Irregularities in the Pharmaceutical Procurement and Sales Sector and Medical Services by 2025", divided into four parts with 15 items in total. The "Key Points" point out that: It is necessary to continuously deepen governance in the pharmaceutical procurement and sales sector, focus on the "key few" and key positions, target regulatory focuses such as drugs, high-value medical consumables, medical equipment, construction projects, and information technology project bidding, logistics services, etc., continuously standardize key behaviors such as sample outsourcing, external prescription dispensing, project approval, fund utilization, and strengthen administrative law enforcement and judicial cases. Improve the system of blacklisting bribe givers and recipients in the pharmaceutical procurement and sales sector, and the system for recording bad units. Enhance the responsibility of social organizations in the pharmaceutical industry for business guidance, standardize part-time compensation, journal management, conference organizing, and strictly review branch office establishment, actively guide industry associations to enhance their professionalism and credibility. It is necessary to systematically rectify the chaos in medical services, use methods such as prescription sampling, intelligent prompts, spot checks, performance evaluations, hospital inspections, checking cases of abnormal hospitalization expenses, statistics, audit, complaint handling, etc. Focus on illegal and irregular behavior in the protection of patient privacy, genetic testing, assisted reproduction, medical aesthetics, prevention and control of childhood myopia, issuance of medical certificates, and carry out comprehensive rectification of corruption and irregularities in the funeral industry, and maintain a high pressure against corruption. Regulate online diagnosis and treatment behaviors. Focus on qualification access, whether online diagnosis and treatment activities are consistent with the diagnosis and treatment subjects of physical medical institutions, the conduct of diagnosis and treatment activities, online prescriptions, and other key aspects of online diagnosis and treatment, and strengthen the supervision of "online medical care". Crack down on internet "medical promoters", illegal pharmaceutical advertisements, and fraudulent activities such as using medical science popularization or conference activities to attract customers, counterfeit, alter, or edit videos of industry personnel in service or retirement for profit, etc. Establish and improve a multi-department coordinated mechanism for punishing illegal and irregular practices in the medical internet sector. Strengthen medical ethics and conduct management. Press on the responsibilities of medical institutions to effectively fulfill the main responsibility of managing medical ethics and conduct. Strengthen the daily education and guidance of medical personnel, integrate the construction of work ethics with the enhancement of professional capabilities. For individual medical personnel who violate medical ethics, damage medical conduct, harm public interests, patient rights, and industry image, a "zero tolerance" approach should be taken, with strict consequences. Protect the security of medical insurance funds. Keep a close eye on designated medical institutions, designated retail pharmacies, professional fraudsters, crack down on insurance fraud and regulate the illegal use of medical insurance funds, and make good use of multi-departmental joint punishment mechanisms.