The new Private Hospitals draft regulation (“Draft Regulation”) proposes to repeal the current Regulation of Private Hospitals No. 85 of 1980, in order to tighten health regulations by creating a committee tasked with overseeing all applications for private hospital licenses (“Committee”). This proposed legislation aims to fill existing gaps in current healthcare regulations, serving as a stepping stone towards enacting a medical accountability law. However, specific procedures relating to services like in vitro fertilization are yet to be targeted by regulation, and no unified regulations exist for standardizing operating rooms.  The proposed legislation intends to contribute towards remedying these issues by improving private hospital regulations in terms of construction, quality of layout and staff management systems in order to increase the quality of Jordanian healthcare standards. Its application will be immediate for all new private hospitals, and retrospective for any private hospitals already established. 

As in the current regulation, two distinct types of private hospitals are recognized under Art. 15 of the Draft Regulation: