NHSO awarded for high performance
 
National Health Security Office (NHSO) won the Ministry of Finance's award in two categories, the best working capital management and the outstanding organization performance. 

The award was given under the Ministry's Comptroller General's Department Award 2020, which encourages Thai governmental organizations to manage their budget effectively and improve their transparency and accountability.

"The NHSO has managed the budget of the Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS) that provides free healthcare access to around 49 million people in Thailand," said the NHSO Secretary-General Dr. Sakchai Kanjanawatana, who represented the NHSO during the award ceremony at the Government's House on 17 September.

"We've implemented the policy to assure the efficiency in our budget management, also, provide the best outcomes and achieve the UCS goal for improving people's healthcare access."
The NHSO received the award in two categories; the Best Working Capital Management and the Outstanding Organization Performance.

Winning the Best Working Capital Management award proves the NHSO's high capacity in managing its budget and monitoring its pending and outcomes. It is the seventh consecutive years that the NHSO won the award in this category.

The Outstanding Organization Performance award guarantees the high performance of the NHSO staff and the CEOs who can implement organizational development and respond to the needs of multi-stakeholders. The NHSO is only one organization that has won this award in this year and received this category award in three consecutive years.


The NHSO deputy secretary-general Karoon Kuntiranont said that the award reflected the collaboration between the NHSO and the UCS stakeholders — including civil society, health workers, government and private sectors — in improving the health security of Thai people.

"We’ll continue working for the improvement of our performance and delivering healthcare access to Thai people," he said.