# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) - 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（検討等） — address `suppl-4041-89/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4041-89/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4041-89/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（検討等） — Review, Etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4041-89/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4041-89/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4041-89/art-3 **第一項** 政府は、患者の病状に応じて適切な医療を提供することができるよう、総合病院その他の病院及び診療所の在り方、家庭医機能の充実等地域における医療を提供する施設相互間の業務の連係の在り方等医療を提供する体制に関し、引き続き検討を加え、その結果に基づいて法制の整備その他の必要な措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-4041-89/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4041-89/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4041-89/art-3/par-1 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. machine translation, not official **第二項** 政府は、看護婦その他の医療従事者の養成及び確保に努めるとともに、医療従事者の病院における人員配置等に関し検討を加え、その結果に基づいて必要な措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-4041-89/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4041-89/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4041-89/art-3/par-2 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. machine translation, not official --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-care-act-20261019T151250-017, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 211 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19