Why is it not enough to register a visit to the health system? / The government's insistence on the necessity of strategic purchase of services and "Iran" operational budgeting: at the meeting of the National Faculty of Family Medicine, the Vice President clearly warned that if the financial and human resources of the selected networks are not fully provided, the implementation of the plan will face a serious challenge. Experts and senior managers in the government emphasize that it is not sufficient to evaluate the program by recording the number of visits, but rather the quality of the services, an accurate calculation of the total price and changing the insurance payment mechanisms are the essential conditions for the success of the referral system. Despite coverage of 13.3 million people and significant achievements in identifying chronic patients, the government and the Ministry of Health believe that continuing this path requires macro management commitment, national consensus and the allocation of resources in time so that the cost pressure is removed from the shoulders of the people. Read the full text here.