The Philippine UHC Law aims to prioritize primary care, mandating that each citizen must be empaneled to a primary care provider within a health care provider network (HCPN). To ensure the quality of health care services, health professional training curricula will be redesigned to emphasize primary care. In the interim, a certification process for primary care providers will be implemented to encourage health care providers to practice primary care following established competencies. ThinkWell and the Philippine Country Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) provided technical assistance to the Department of Health (DOH) to develop such a certification process. This brief presents the rationale and proposed design of this certification process.
ThinkWell produced this report under the Strategic Purchasing for Primary Health Care (SP4PHC) grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.