Regulation on the Delivery and Coordination of Home Health and Palliative Care Services
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This regulation sets minimum standards for home health services and palliative care in Turkey. It covers how home health units and palliative care services are set up, staffed, equipped, operated, recorded, monitored, and inspected. It affects the Ministry of Health, universities, municipalities, private health institutions providing palliative care, and public bodies providing home health services. The practical goal is to make care more coordinated across family medicine, hospitals, remote health systems, referrals, transfers, discharge processes, and national digital health records.
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Key Changes
- Sets minimum operational, staffing, physical, equipment, technology, quality, recordkeeping, and inspection standards for home health and palliative care services
- Creates a more integrated model linking home health care with primary care, hospitals, remote health services, referrals, transfers, and discharge processes
- Defines key service structures such as home health units, home health teams, communication centers, coordination centers, electronic record systems, and pediatric palliative care units
Obligations
What this law requires
Home health service units and palliative care services must be established and operated in accordance with the minimum standards set by the regulation for organization, workflow, personnel and service criteria, physical conditions, materials, and medical technological resources.
Home health services and palliative care services must be carried out in coordination and integration with primary care, inpatient health services, and remote health services.
Covered providers must maintain service records through electronic health information systems integrated with the national digital health information infrastructure, including ESYS, HBYS, AHBS, USBS, and related systems where applicable.
A public health facility that has a home health service unit must have a responsible physician assigned by the chief physician for that unit.
Palliative care services for patients aged 18 and under must be provided through child palliative care services established within health facilities permitted by the Ministry of Health.