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• For private institutions of higher education, the

  authority to operate a degree program is granted by

  CHED in two (2) different phases.

  • A permit phase and a recognition phase.
  • Recognition to proceed with the third year level and on.
• Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) Modernization Act of 2000 strengthened the role of the PRC to enforce Government policies on regulation and licensing of the various professions and occupations, and the enhancement and maintenance of professional

  standards and ethics (Professional Regulation

  Commission 2016).
• 43 Professional Regulatory Boards, which include among others, the Boards of Medicine, Nursing, Midwifery, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Medical Technology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Radiologic Technology, Respiratory Therapy, and Physical and Occupational Therapy.
• The boards exercise administrative, quasi – legislative and quasi – judicial powers, prescribe the course requirements, administer and conduct the licensure examinations, administer oaths and issue the certificate of registration or professional license for the practice of their respective professions.
• PRC is empowered to monitor the performance of academic institutions in licensure examinations, publish the results there of in a newspaper of national circulation

  and institute a comprehensive rating system for

  universities and colleges based on the passing ratio and overall performance of students in board examinations.
• Patent protection for pharmaceutical products is governed under the provisions of the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines (Republic Act No. 8293) and enforced by the Intellectual Property Office under the Department of Trade and Industry.
• In 2010, the Member States of WHO adopted the Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel, which promotes the ethical recruitment of health personnel considering the rights and obligations of source countries, destination countries and migrant health personnel.
• Philippines is a signatory to the ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangements on medical, dental and nursing practitioners, such regional arrangements

  have not been implemented to allow the entry of foreign migrant health workers into the country.
• The legal rights and responsibilities of foreign health

  professionals intending to practice in the Philippines is bound by certain statues, such as

  • the 1987 Philippine Constitution (Article XII, Sections 10 and 14)
  • Executive Order No. 584 (Office of the President of the Philippines, 1999), which limit the practice of the health professions to Filipino citizens
• The access of foreign workers to the Philippine labor

  market is also covered by the strict provisions of the Labor Code of the Philippines and the PRC Modernization Act of 2000
• REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9711

  FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION ACT OF 2009
• FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION ACT

  four (4) centers were established based on the major product categories being

  regulated, namely:

  • Center for Drug Regulation and Research (to include veterinary medicine, vaccines and biological)
  • Center for Food Regulation and Research (to include food/dietary supplements)
  • Center for Cosmetics Regulation and Research ( to include household hazardous/urban substances)
  • Center for Device Regulation, Radiation Health, and Research.
• FDA is also mandated under the Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of 2008 (Republic Act No. 9502) to ensure that all drugs authorized for marketing in the Philippines conform to international standards for content, purity and quality.
• REGULATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS

  pharmaceutical or health product is required to secure an License to Operate (LTO) and a Certificate of Product Registration (CPR) from the FDA
• 2011, the FDA institutionalized the National

  Pharmacovigilance as the framework for an organized as the framework for an organized and structured system: PHARMACOVIGILANCE
• Patent protection for pharmaceutical products is governed under the provisions of the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines (Republic Act No. 8293) and enforced by the Intellectual Property Office under the Department of Trade and Industry.
• The Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality

  Medicines Act of 2008 (Republic Act No. 9502)

  amended certain rules on intellectual property concerning pharmaceutical products.
• Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

  (TRIPS) Agreement to ensure access to affordable and quality drugs and medicines when public health and public interest, or circumstances of extreme urgency as it would require.
• It also empowered the President of the Philippines to

  impose the maximum retail price (MRP) based on the list of drugs and medicines that are subject to price regulation
• HEALTH SECTOR REFORM AGENDA

  • Aims to improve the way health care is delivered, regulated and financed through systemic reforms in public health, the hospitals system, local health, health regulation and health financing.
• FOURMULA ONE (F1) FOR HEALTH

  • Implements the reform strategies in service delivery, health regulation, health financing and governance as a single package that is supported by effective management infrastructure and financing arrangements, with particular focus on critical health interventions.
• REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9994

  EXPANDED SENIOR CITIZEN’S ACT OF 2010

  • Grants additional benefits and privileges to senior citizens, including 20% discount and exemption from the value-added tax (VAT) on the purchase of the following:
  • Administrative Order No. 2010 – 0032 provides the guidelines and mechanisms to implement the provisions of Republic Act No. 9994.
• HEALTH FINANCING STRATEGY 2010 – 2020

  • Supports the overall sector goals of improving financial protection, achieving efficiency gains and ensuring access to quality care through five pillars:

  1. Creating more fiscal space for health
  2. Sustaining membership in Phil Health – pooling
  3. Who pays for what
  4. Provider payments
  5. Fiscal autonomy of health facilities
• AQUINO HEALTH AGENDA FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH

  CARE ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 2010 – 0036

  • Seek to improve, streamline, and scale up the reform strategies laid out in the Health Sector Reform Agenda and the FOURmula One for Health to address inequities in health outcomes.
• REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10152

  MANDATORY INFANTS AND CHILDREN’S HEALTH

  IMMUNIZATION ACT OF 2011

  • Declares that the government shall take a proactive role in the preventive health care of infants and children, particularly in providing the mandatory basic immunization for all infants and children.
• REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10351

  SIN TAX REFORM ACT OF 2012

  “Sin Tax” expands health coverage in the Phil.

  Aims to:

  (i) raise revenues for health

  (ii) Discourage the consumption of the tobacco

  products and alcoholic beverages by imposing

  higher excise taxes on “sin” products.
• SIN TAX REFORM BILL

  • Increased taxes on all tobacco and alcohol, providing a new funding that enable the govt.
  • To enroll more in universal health care and scale up Non- Communicable Disease Prevention services in primary care.
• REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10354

  RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD AND REPRODUCTIVE

  HEALTH ACT

  • Guarantees universal and free access to nearly all modern contraceptives for all Filipinos, including impoverished communities, at government health centers.
  • Reinforced Executive Order No. 12 2017, attaining and sustaining zero unmet need for modern family planning through the strict implementation of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act.