The primary objective of the health system in which each country including Vietnam is aiming for a sustainable development through the implementation of health care for the entire population, that is ensuring that all citizens need can be use of advanced health services, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care quality and efficiency while ensuring that the use of these services does not make users encounter to financial risks. To accomplish this goal, the decisive factor is the health care system should be based on the foundation of primary health care through the strengthening of grassroots health care network.

In recent years, hospital overcrowding in central hospitals and provincial hospitals in large cities has caused a sensation in society. To remedy these shortcomings, the Ministry of Health has advised the Prime Minister to promulgate synchronous solutions: Scheme reduce hospital overcrowding period 2013 - 2020, the scheme Satellite Hospital, Project 1816, scheme family doctor (GP), ... Along with the above measures, tightening regulations on transit is regarded as one of the important measures to reduce the load for the regional hospital.

In recent years, with the interest of the Party, the Government, at all levels and sectors, the efforts of the health sector with the help of international organizations; Health system in our country in general and the network of clinics in particular have achieved many important accomplishments. However, besides the achievements gained, Clinical areas in our country is still faced with many difficulties and challenges: infrastructure and equipment of many hospitals, especially these hospitals have deteriorated, the shortage of health workers with technical expertise in the medical facility at lower levels are still quite popular and lasting many years to affect the quality of treatment and patient care, hospital overcrowding still frequently occur, mainly concentrated in the big cities…

On 23/11/2015 at Nha Trang City, the Health Strategy and Policy Institute in collaboration with the Department of Personnel and Organisation, Ministry of Health held a Workshop on sharing experience on developing department of social work in the hospital and preliminary implementation of developing social work profession in the health sector for 2011-2020 under the chairmanship of Prof. Nguyen Viet Tien, Deputy Minister of Health, Chairman’s scheme developing social work profession in the health sector

From 13 to 17 October, 2015, at Daewoo Hotel, Hanoi, the Health Strategy and Policy Institute in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) held the 5th Annual Meeting of the Research Project on Resilient & Responsive Health System (RESYST). The aim of the conference is to share experience and enhance the capacity of the member countries of the project on research and health policy formulation: health financing; health workforce and health system administrators contribute to enhancing the ability to meet the health system towards covering the entire population healthcare (UHC) in low-income and middle-income countries.

For about two decades until now, violence at the workplace was concerned by the international community, including violence in the health sector. Many large-scale researches has shown that health care staff is one of the groups facing highest risk of violence at workplace in comparison with other sectors. In Viet Nam, there has no specific researches about this issue, however, many people’ve claimed that recently violence at work place to health care staff is increased significantly in both quantity and seriousness. The number of cases were published in mass media are just the floating ice of the iceberg.

The objective of covering the whole population health is the common goal of most countries around the world, in which all citizens are guaranteed to use health services when in need without discrimination treatment and does not depend on the affordability; the comprehensive health services including improving health services, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care with good quality to be effective in improving the health of the users; and the use of these services does not make people encountering financial difficulties.

On 27/4/2015, the Health Strategy and Policy Institute conducting test the project “Assessment of organizational situation, manpower backup networks and treatment of endocrine diseases”. This is the grassroots theses by the Ministry of Health directing Health Strategy and Policy Institute in collaboration with the Hospital of Endocrinology to implementing the research.