From 1 July, medical care for mental and behavioral disorders will be provided according to a new procedure. writes about it “Kommersant”.
The new rules were approved by order of the Ministry of Health No. 668n. According to Svetlana Shport, a self-employed psychiatrist at the Ministry of Health, the new procedure aims to integrate psychiatric care into the general health system. It will allow you to organize the work on a “modular basis”. Thus, offices or departments will be organized in primary care, somatopsychiatry departments will be established in multidisciplinary hospitals, and if necessary, nosological orientation offices will be opened (suicide, geriatrics. – “socialbites.ca”).
It is clarified that the document makes it possible to include medical psychologists in the work of the psychiatric service at the primary level. It also defines the normative principles for the organization of medical measures for compulsory treatment.
As psychiatrist-narcologist Ruslan Isaev, head of the Isaev Clinic, points out, the medical community welcomes the innovation as they lower the threshold for access to psychotherapeutic care for the general population.
In Russian clinics from July 1 cabinets will appear medical and psychological help. In these, it will be possible to apply for psychological help within the framework of compulsory health insurance (CHI). In this regard, the Ministry of Health brought the rate of medical psychologists. Specialists will advise the patient, family members, or other legal representatives, and will also refer people with symptoms to consult physicians, including institutions that provide medical care for mental disorders.
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