An act certifying the right of an organization or entrepreneur to provide medical services for free or for a fee is a medical license. Obligatory receipt of it by state healthcare institutions and a paid clinic is a requirement of the legislation regulating free and paid medical services.
In order to be sure of qualified medical care, a potential patient should contact a clinic that has this document. But before that, he should check his medical license. In order to verify it, you need to know which authorities issue such licenses.
Licensing authorities
Licensing bodies are part of federal, republican, municipal authorities. These include:
- federal, regional, municipal control services providing health surveillance;
- bodies authorized by the executive authorities of the republics, territories, regions of Russia, subordinate to which are medical and other organizations that are in municipal ownership.
The Federal Service for Supervision in the Field of Health and its territorial branches are licensing bodies. Obtain a license should be in the territorial authority where the clinic is located. No other organization or institution (other than those listed above) shall issue such a document.
In order to check the medical license for authenticity, you should first check which body issued it.
Legislative regulation of licensing of medical activities
The rules for issuing licenses, types of permitted activities, and validity periods are established by federal laws, resolutions of the federal government and the governments of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, and orders of the Russian Ministry of Health.
Those who want to more deeply check the validity of a medical license can be familiarized with the legislative acts regulating this activity in advance.
The above legislative and regulatory acts determine the operating procedure of private clinics and medical organizations, which excludes harm to the life and health of patients.
Types of activities of medical institutions for which a license is required
Public and private clinics providing:
- emergency (first), high-tech (specialized), palliative medical care;
- carrying out medical examinations, examinations, examinations, prevention;
- sanatorium-resort health improvement;
- organ and tissue transplantation, harvesting, preservation of blood (and its components);
- massage, manual procedures, ear piercing, piercing and permanent makeup, tattoo.
All of them are required to license their activities. A medical license cannot be verified without failing to verify the types of permitted activities listed therein.
It is necessary to pay attention to the fact that many organizations that provide services for ear piercing, tattooing, piercing, massage do not have medical licenses. Leaders in their defense declare that these are cosmetic services. This is a direct violation of licensing activities. Upon receipt of such procedures in order to exclude possible harm to health (and sometimes life), you should know in advance where to check the medical license.
Organizations and citizens who are eligible to receive a medical license
The license can be obtained by medical organizations and entrepreneurs who, in accordance with the Charter, carry out medical activities (as the main one). Managers, their deputies and employees of private and state clinics should have the appropriate medical education (higher, secondary, additional), regularly improve their skills at least once every 5 years. In private clinics, the required medical experience in the specialty for doctors is 5 years, for nurses 3 years. Mandatory medical certificate, specialization of which is "Organization of public health and public health." The same requirement applies to individual entrepreneurs. The medical organization should have internal security controls on the services provided. To verify that you have the appropriate qualifications of a private doctor, just check your medical license.
Location of medical services
The organization (entrepreneur) must have a room in which he carries out medical activities. This room should be equipped with appropriate equipment, instruments, tools, apparatuses, other medical devices necessary for the implementation of medical activities (in accordance with the equipment sheet).
Turning to a paid clinic, the patient must check the license of the medical organization to see if the clinic address matches the address in the license. If the address does not match what is indicated in the license, then medical care cannot be provided in this room.
Validity of a medical license
In the event that the applicant has submitted to the licensing authority all the necessary documents and at the same time complies with all the requirements, the licensing authority shall issue a medical license. Its action is unlimited. But it can in certain cases be recalled. In this case, the provision of medical services is suspended until the issue of issuing a new license or renewing an old one is resolved.
Grounds for revoking a medical license
Revocation of the license may be due to identified violations during a routine check or check on a patient’s complaint. The consequences of these violations should cause significant harm to the patient. For example, a significant deterioration in the health of the patient (or several patients), a threat to the life of the patient.
Information contained in the license for medical services
This is the series and number of the license, the licensing authority that issued it, the date of issue, the licensed type of activity, the permitted types of services, the name of the organization to which it was issued, the main state registration and identification number. The annex contains a detailed list of services, address, license validity period, licensing authority, and the official’s signature.
Registry
In accordance with the Regulation on Licensing, the licensing organization maintains a register of issued licenses. It contains the data of organizations:
- licensed;
- rejected;
- renewed license;
- whose license is terminated or suspended;
- whose license is renewed;
- received a copy or duplicate.
The registry contains data on the name of the organization, its address, number and series, date of issue. In the registry there is always the opportunity to check the medical license by number.
Information on issued licenses on the Internet
The register of medical licenses is available on the website of the federal licensing authority - the Federal Service for Supervision in the Field of Health, on the websites of territorial offices in the regions of Russia, on the State Service portal.
One of the requirements for licensed medical institutions and organizations is the placement on the stand of full information about the license obtained. It should be placed in the clinic in a public place so that anyone can get acquainted with this information.
To check the license number of a medical institution, you need to go to the site of the licensing authority, click on the link "Unified Register of Licenses". In the search line that appears, enter the series and number or any data of the institution (for example, TIN or PSRN). After these actions, the search result appears. A similar algorithm of actions is also on the State Services portal.