Deputy PM suggests autonomy for HCM City university members Member universities of the Việt Nam National University- Hồ Chí Minh City should seek financial autonomy, which is indispensable to their development, Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has said.

Autonomy will improve hospitals' operations: health official Nguyễn Viết Tiến, deputy health minister, talks to Tuổi trẻ cuối tuần (Youth Weekend edition) about the concerns raised over a two-year pilot programme that would grant full autonomy to the four largest public hospitals in the country – Bạch Mai, Việt Nam-Germany, K (in Hà Nội) and Chợ Rẫy Hospital (in HCM City).

Grassroots hospitals need to be active in improving their doctors’ capabilities Nguyễn Ngô Quang, deputy head of the Department of Science, Technology and Training under the Ministry of Health, talked to Youth (Tuổi Trẻ) Newspaper’s weekend edition about the need for financial sources for health staff training.

Financial autonomy for public hospitals: a blessing or a curse Financial autonomy would boost the competitiveness of health institutions as they would have more "wiggle room" to pursue hi-tech techniques in organ transplants, extracorporeal lithotripsy, endoscopic surgery and other cancer-related diagnosis and treatments.

Financial autonomy for public hospitals: a blessing or a curse Financial autonomy would boost the competitiveness of health institutions as they would have more "wiggle room" to pursue hi-tech techniques in organ transplants, extracorporeal lithotripsy, endoscopic surgery and other cancer-related diagnosis and treatments.

Four major hospitals to run full autonomy pilot programme The Government has announced a pilot programme under which four major hospitals will have full financial and managerial autonomy.

HCM City, Hà Nội take first steps to schools autonomy

Hà Nội and HCM City are both rolling experiments in granting more autonomy to public schools in hopes of improving educational quality and reducing the schools’ reliance on the State budget.

Flexibility needed for hospital autonomy: Deputy PM

The Ministry of Health should speed up financial autonomy for hospitals, especially at large national and city- level facilities, to meet patient demand for quality services, Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has said.

Patients’ satisfaction getting better, still need improvements: health executives

Recent surveys amongst 1 million correspondents show inpatients’ satisfaction with hospital services in Việt Nam reached 75.6 per cent, while the figure for outpatients is at 66.3 per cent.

Hospitals running out of patients

Financial and managerial autonomy for public hospitals has yielded positive changes, but district hospitals have seen limited benefits and new challenges.