Launching the membership of the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties to raise the quality and efficiency of services

Today, the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties announced the launch of the membership regulations in the authority, which includes membership provisions for health practitioners in all health specialties, after the approval issued by the Commission’s Board of Trustees at the meeting of the 95th Council held in August of last year. She explained that the list published today in the Official Gazette that will be applied after 90 days included fundamental amendments that included amending 21 articles of the previous regulations, deleting 16 articles, and adding 26 New material.

The amendments included emphasizing the principle of the authority’s recognition of health qualifications through clear criteria that include replacing the principle of group lists with the principle of the professional equation of the qualification, and the inclusion of a number of mechanisms that allow the absorption of various types of health qualifications for all health specialties, and the regulation also absorbed what relates to accepting experiences in its various forms, and clarified the frameworks related to the professional evaluation of the health practitioner.

The commission indicated that the updated regulations cancel the “general regulations for professional classification and registration issued by the decision of the Board of Trustees on 3/5/2017 AD, and its executive rules and cancel the professional classification and registration guide for health practitioners issued in 1435 AH and all the previous classification evidence and all the provisions that contradict it, calling on health practitioners and those interested in seeing the regulations through the authority’s website.

It is noteworthy that the list of membership of the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties comes to keep pace with the transformation in the health sector, in a way that serves the health practitioner by improving the procedures for classification and professional registration and developing them, and enabling health specialties in a way that raises the quality of services and their efficiency in the health sector.