Overview
In line with the goals of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 and to improve the quality of the health sector in a way that serves human health, the Ministry of Health focused on three roles: organizing services, providing them, and financing them. It was necessary to separate these roles so that the Ministry is responsible for organizing and supervising the sector. It is the first building block in developing the sector’s components.
The institutional transformation of healthcare facilities is promoted through a specific model by forming health clusters distributed across all regions of the Kingdom to demonstrate the concept of institutional transformation, and operated through regional business units - which will be established and supervised by the Health Holding Company as a state-owned government company - so that the work units free the health clusters from centralized decision-making.
Decisions are made in the Ministry, and the clusters eventually turn into integrated healthcare organizations (Care Accountable Organizations). Each health cluster becomes responsible for maintaining the public health of a specific population group, activating early detection, spreading health awareness and healthy life habits among members of society, and providing the necessary knowledge to them as part of care for them, to check on their health, and to follow up on their physical, mental and emotional condition from childhood until old age.
The health clusters include several service provision facilities at different levels: primary care centers, hospitals, medical cities, and specialized hospitals.
All necessary decisions are taken, including all work and decisions related to the health cluster, such as employment and maintenance decisions and transferring beneficiaries between the facilities of the same cluster according to specialization and clinical capacity, or rapidly transferring health personnel between cluster facilities according to the need for specializations without the need to return to the Ministry.
The health cluster is an integrated network of healthcare providers. It is a network geographically distributed across various regions in the Kingdom. These clusters apply the modern health care model, so that the modern health care model has paths that include preventive care, chronic disease care, palliative care, and urgent care. Child and maternal care, and elective care. The health clusters will work to bring about a radical change in the care they provide to beneficiaries in line with the modern model of care in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This comes within the framework of working to enable the beneficiary during his review in these gatherings to obtain all the required services through an integrated administrative organization responsible for ensuring the flexibility of service procedures, the speed of service provision, and ensuring the satisfaction of the beneficiaries. In line with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, and within the framework of efforts to develop the healthcare system which contributes to the empowerment of beneficiaries, the healthcare model is designed based on the following principles:
- Empowering beneficiaries and their families to control their health.
- Providing the necessary knowledge to beneficiaries as part of their treatment and enabling them to acquire the necessary culture to control their health.
- Full integration of the health system in line with the viewpoint of the beneficiaries.
- Maintaining the health of individuals and focusing on beneficiaries by taking a preventative approach rather than taking curative-only approach to providing health services.
- Providing therapeutic services in a way that suits the beneficiaries, and focuses on results, without treatment being excessive or suboptimal.