In addition, the plan set out that the pre-examination and triage process needs to be standardized. Continued improvements should be made in the infectious disease reporting system, to enable hospitals to detect and report notifiable infectious diseases as early as possible.

Family doctor services will be promoted, to provide residents with more convenience and ease the difficulties in seeking doctors in large general hospitals. Doctors will also support daily health management, health monitoring, psychological counselling of key groups , including those who recover from the novel coronavirus pandemic. 

Furthermore, hospitals will be expected to pay more attention to the health management of patients with chronic diseases, as well as the general health education of local residents.

The plan also calls for efforts to explore new development paths. For example, it requires assistance for primary medical institutions with surgical conditions in obtaining access to medical services and asks for the relaxation of drug and other restrictions currently imposed on them.

Community hospitals will be encouraged to establish cooperative relations with hospitals above the Grade-II level, as well as independent medical inspection centers, medical imaging centers, disinfection supply centers, pathology centers and other institutions, to enjoy shared medical resources.

The plan also says that community hospitals should intensify their capacity to deal with respiratory diseases. It proposes that independent respiratory disease consultation rooms, waiting areas and emergency isolation rooms be set up, in line with establishment principles of fever clinics.