Resolution 261 of the National Assembly in 2025, officially taking effect from January 1, 2026, has introduced many specific mechanisms and policies to create breakthroughs in protecting, caring for and improving people's health, while significantly improving the preferential treatment regime for medical staff.
One of the notable contents of the Resolution is the new regulations on salaries and professional preferential allowances, directly affecting the rights of hundreds of thousands of officials and employees working in the health sector.
Doctors and pharmacists are ranked from grade 2 when recruiting
According to Resolution 261, medical doctors, traditional medicine doctors, dentists, preventive medicine doctors and pharmacists when recruited for corresponding professional titles will be ranked from grade 2, instead of grade 1 as before.
This regulation is applied until there are new regulations on salary regimes, contributing to increasing initial income, creating motivation to attract and retain high-quality human resources for the health sector.
Cases entitled to 100% professional preferential allowance
In addition to the salary policy, Resolution 261 also stipulates a maximum occupational preferential allowance of up to 100% for some groups of medical staff working in specific conditions.
Specifically, people who regularly and directly practice medical expertise in areas with heavy, hazardous, and high-risk nature will enjoy 100% of professional preferential allowances, including the following majors:
Mental illness
Forensic
Forensic psychiatry
Resuscitation – emergency
Pathology
These are fields that require high work intensity, high psychological pressure and deep professional qualifications, with many potential occupational risks. In fact, the team working in these specialties has for many years proposed raising the salary level to be commensurate with the nature of the job.
Health workers in difficult areas also enjoy the highest level
Along with specific fields, the 100% occupational preferential allowance level is also applied to medical staff working at commune-level health stations and preventive health facilities, if working in areas:
Ethnic minority and mountainous areas
Regions with difficult socio-economic conditions
Areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions
Border and island areas
Accordingly, people who regularly and directly work in medical expertise at commune-level health stations and preventive health facilities in the above-mentioned areas will enjoy the highest professional preferential allowance, in order to compensate for difficult working conditions and lack of facilities and human resources.
Raising the level of professional preferential allowances to 100% for specific target groups is considered an important step forward in the preferential treatment policy for the health sector, especially in the context that grassroots healthcare and preventive medicine still face many difficulties.
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