KSA Healthcare Clusters Update

As the Kingdom seeks to shift to the “new model of care”, delivered through its network of health clusters being formed, the Ministry of Health (“MOH”) issued the first edition of the Health Cluster Management Guide, 2024, which includes several standards and requirements to ensure that health facilities affiliated with the MOH apply the best health practices and standards as applicable to the capabilities of the public sector facilities.

Oversight of these health standards in a transparent way will be crucial to achieving success and sustainability, ensuring policies and procedures are implemented correctly, and limiting risks and abuses. The guide includes a variety of checklist type standards for an assortment of care settings and departments, including those in:

• hospitals;
• home healthcare;
• long term care and medical rehabilitation;
• primary health care centers;
• laboratories;
• blood banks; and
• forensic services centers.

It also includes cybersecurity standards as well as standards for engineering services, maintenance, and operation. Finally, the second chapter addresses the technical and administrative staff as well as healthcare practitioners.

We are looking forward to further announcements this year about the developments of the strategy concerning health clusters, the national health insurer, and the Health Holding Company.

Stay tuned here… Healthcare & Life Sciences MENA – Al Tamimi & Company