Key Enablers

Initiatives

Workforce

- Implement strategies to attract and maintain citizens into the medical and health profession

- New regulations to reorganize medical human resources by the Ministry of Health

Healthcare

Financing

- Implement a value-based provider payment system

- Set up the other facet of the National Health Insurance rollout phases

Privatization and Autonomy

- Privatization of public hospitals to reform Saudi Arabia’s healthcare s

- Separate the multiple roles of the MOH and distribute them to regional directorates

E-health

- Provide digital tools for patient self-services, prevention, and connected care

- High-level coordination to have a comprehensive national system for health information

Private sector participation

- Increase private involvement by facilitating ownership, or management of MOH hospitals

Governance

- Strengthen MOH mandate to lead sector reform with strong oversight over regulatory agencies

- Decentralizing it and transforming the role of MOH to be more strategic