# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第三十条の十九 (Article 30-19) - Law: 医療法 (Medical Care Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二百五号 - English title "Medical Care Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第三十条の十九 (Article 30-19) — address `art-30-19` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-19 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十条の十九 art-30-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-19 **第一項** 病院又は診療所の管理者は、当該病院又は診療所に勤務する医療従事者の勤務環境の改善その他の医療従事者の確保に資する措置を講ずるよう努めなければならない。 art-30-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-19/par-1 The administrator of a hospital or clinic must endeavor to take measures to improve the working environment of medical care professionals working in the relevant hospital or clinic and other measures that contribute to ensuring the availability of medical care professionals. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第三十条の二十第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-20/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 医療法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000205/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19