# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第三十条の八 (Article 30-8) - 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: 第三十条の八 (Article 30-8) — address `art-30-8` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-8 - 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. --- ### 第三十条の八 art-30-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-8 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、医療計画の作成の手法その他医療計画の作成上重要な技術的事項について、都道府県に対し、必要な助言をすることができる。 art-30-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-8/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may provide the necessary advice to the prefectures regarding the method of preparing medical care plans and other key practical particulars regarding the preparation of medical care plans. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項に定めるもののほか、厚生労働大臣は、医療計画において定められた第三十条の四第二項第四号から第六号までに掲げる事項の実施について、同項第一号の目標の設定並びに当該目標の達成のための実効性のある取組及び当該取組の効果に係る評価の実施が総合的に推進されるよう、都道府県に対し、必要な助言を行うものとする。 art-30-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-8/par-2 In addition to what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to provide the necessary advice to prefectures regarding the implementation of the particulars listed in Article 30-4, paragraph (2), items (iv) to (vi) as prescribed in the medical care plan, so that the setting of the targets set forth in item (i) of that paragraph, effective initiatives for achieving those targets, and the implementation of evaluations of the effects of those initiatives are comprehensively promoted. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-30-8/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第三十条の八第一項 (Article 30-8, paragraph (1)), art-30-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-8/par-1 - art-30-8/par-2: 第三十条の四第二項第四号から第六号まで → 医療法 第三十条の四第二項第四号 (Article 30-4, paragraph (2), item (iv)), art-30-4/par-2/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-4/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-4/par-2/item-4 - art-30-8/par-2: 第三十条の四第二項第四号から第六号まで → 医療法 第三十条の四第二項第五号 (Article 30-4, paragraph (2), item (v)), art-30-4/par-2/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-4/par-2/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-4/par-2/item-5 - art-30-8/par-2: 第三十条の四第二項第四号から第六号まで → 医療法 第三十条の四第二項第六号 (Article 30-4, paragraph (2), item (vi)), art-30-4/par-2/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-4/par-2/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-4/par-2/item-6 - art-30-8/par-2: 同項第一号 → 医療法 第三十条の四第二項第一号 (Article 30-4, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-30-4/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-4/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-4/par-2/item-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第三十条の八第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-8/par-2 --- ## 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-20261019T151250-003, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19