How to check the license for medical activity on your own? Some simple and effective ways

The rights of every citizen are protected by law, including in the field of medical care.

the federal law “On Licensing Certain Types of Activities” dated 04.05.2011 No. 99-FZ obliges institutions to confirm the right to provide medical services.

What is the benefit of this to the patient, where and how to check the permission of doctors?

Why would an ordinary citizen need to know if an organization has a medical license? For the patient, it is only important to receive quality care. Further on the points that a person can count on by contacting a licensed clinic:

The institution meets all sanitary and epidemiological standards. To confirm this, there is special opinion.
All employees are experts in their field. They not only received the appropriate education, but also have (at least) five years of experience. All doctors regularly undergo medical examinations and attend refresher courses.
The hospital has the necessary equipment, meeting all the requirements of GOST. It is serviced by licensed professionals. Learn from the article at the link.
Only in a licensed clinic the patient will receive everything necessary documents that are required to receive subsidies or benefits.

It should be noted that not only hospitals require permission to provide medical services. This category also includes massage rooms, tattoo studios, beauty salons that do peeling, depilation, etc., and many other institutions.

The fact is that any activity that is related to human health and a direct impact on it requires certification.

Important! An organization providing medical care without a license bears administrative or criminal liability for its actions.

Ways to check whether the organization has permission to carry out the declared work

Now it is clear that the verification of the organization is in the interests of the patient. Let's figure out how to implement it.

According to the law, each organization must have a website. On the pages of the Internet resource, in the section "About the company", all scanned copies of documents, including licenses, must be.
For clients who do not use the Internet, a copy of the permission is posted on the premises of the clinic. Usually used for this a special stand located next to the registration window.
Contacting Rospotrebnadzor. This option is the most complex and time consuming. You should write an application to the branch of the organization, at the place of residence. The citizen will have to wait about a month for a response.
You can find a medical facility in the register on the website of Roszdravnadzor. This method will be discussed in more detail in the next section.
Last option, form request on the portal of public services. But this feature is not available for all regions of the country.

Attention! In addition to the license, the organization must have an additional application. This document sets out a list of services that the clinic is entitled to provide.

How to look online on the Roszdravnadzor website by number or TIN?

This method is the simplest and will require a minimum of time. By making a simple request, a citizen will receive not only information about the license of the institution, its validity period, but also a lot of other useful information. All you need to do is follow this plan:

Go to Roszdravnadzor website .
Select section "Medical activity" and follow the link licensing of medical activities.

From all the provided services, click on the item single register.

Enter in the empty field license number or legal information of the organization: OGRN, TIN, name.

If these data are unknown, then you can use Advanced Search.

Select from the list Kind of activity And required region.

Important! To save the entered data and get the result, you need to click on the "display result" button.

Data received

After selecting the hospital of interest, the following information will be available to the patient:

All legal information concerning the registration of an institution.
date when the decision was made to issue a license, on the beginning of its validity and the period of renewal.
Information confirming the receipt of an extension for the right to operate if they took place.
If there were suspension of the right to operate, this information will also be displayed.
Data on temporary or permanent deprivation of the right for medical activities.
Full list of services which the medical institution has the right to provide.

It looks like this:

Attention! If the organization of interest was not found in the list, it is likely that it operates illegally.

Does it happen? Unfortunately yes. It's all about the profits, this primarily applies to non-governmental organizations.

About how and not to have problems with the law, read the article at the link.

The opening of private hospitals, beauty salons is associated with large financial injections. The receiving process takes some time. Businessmen seeking to justify their investments may take risks.

Clients of clinics, beauty salons and other similar establishments often do not think about checking any licenses. Just not asking a similar question, or not knowing about the certification procedure. But the information given in the article shows that the verification of documents is simple and primarily in the interests of the patients themselves.