Qatar Ministry of Public Health Circular No. DHP/02/2024

Update on Qatar Ministry of Public Health Circular No. 13/2022 - Guidelines for licensed healthcare practitioners working in healthcare service agencies

To	Department of Healthcare Professions “DHP” / Ministry of Public Health
From	All Physicians in the state of Qatar (Governmental & Private sector) All Healthcare facilities/ focal points in the state of Qatar concerned (Governmental & Private sectors)
Subject	Rejection of training/work under supervision from healthcare practitioners without obtaining a prior approval from DHP
Date	17 January 2024

Greetings from the “Department of Healthcare Professions (DHP)”,

In reference to Qatar Ministry of Public Health Circular No. 13/2022 regarding the guidelines for licensed healthcare practitioners working in healthcare service agencies and in line with the DHPs’ regulatory and monitoring roles to ensure patient safety, the following has been decided:

To Allow only physicians from the specialties listed in the table below to obtain a license to practice in healthcare service agencies and oblige all these agencies to follow the following speciﬁed limitations:
Practice Settings Limitations
Scope of Practice
Home Visits
Schools and nurseries
Companies and construction sites
Family Medicine
✓
✓
✓
Pediatrics
✓
✓
X
Internal Medicine
✓
✓
✓

Practice Settings Limitations
Scope of Practice	Home Visits	Schools and nurseries	Companies and construction sites
Family Medicine	✓	✓	✓
Pediatrics	✓	✓	X
Internal Medicine	✓	✓	✓