Supplementary Provisions, Article 3Review, Etc.
第三条（検討等）
The government is to continue to review the framework for providing medical care, including the state of general hospitals and other hospitals and clinics and the state of coordination of operations among facilities providing medical care in the region, such as enhancement of the family physician function, so that appropriate medical care can be provided according to the condition of the patient, and is to take legislative improvements and other necessary measures based on the results.
The government is to make efforts for the training and securing of nurses and other medical care professionals, review the allocation of personnel by medical care professionals in hospitals, and take necessary measures based on the results.
hospital
「病院」
A place where a doctor or dentist practises medicine or dentistry for the public or for a particular group of many people and which has facilities for admitting 20 or more inpatients, as Article 1-5, paragraph (1) defines it.
Defined inArticle 1-5, paragraph (1)
clinicmachine translation
「診療所」
A place where a doctor or dentist practises medicine or dentistry for the public or for a particular group of many people, which either has no facilities for admitting inpatients (and is not a facility for receiving online medical care (オンライン診療受診施設)) or has facilities for 19 or fewer, as Article 1-5, paragraph (2) defines it.
Defined inArticle 1-5, paragraph (2)
medical care professionals
「医療従事者」
Doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses and the others who work in medical care.
Short name set inArticle 4, paragraph (1), item (i)