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Thailand's Gold Card on show at the Thailand Pavilion during the 2026 IMF–World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok, alongside lessons from how the system adapted during COVID-19.
Floods cover 90% of Phanom Sarakham district, but dialysis solution still reaches patients' doors — by boat where trucks cannot pass, with hospital stock as backup.
Twenty years of local health security funds — from 888 local authorities in 2006 to 7,759 today, plus provincial funds in 74 provinces and long-term care reaching over 430,000 people at home.
Long-term Care,Elderly Care,Community health A trained caregiver in Pathum Thani on the 70-hour course, the care plans, and the bamboo rails that helped a bedridden 70-year-old walk again in 54 days — and why 5,000 baht a month is not enough.
A 289-billion-baht fund for FY2027 — the capitation rate rises to 4,669 baht a head, inpatient care moves to a 10,000-baht AdjRW target, and 1.35 billion goes to new benefits.
Mental health under the Gold Card in 2025 — 1.83 million people treated, rehabilitation visits doubled since 2022, and follow-up care for chronic patients through a network reaching 3,374 primary care units.
Why Thailand ring-fenced HIV money outside the capitation budget in 2006 — opening testing and treatment to private and civil society providers, and cutting new infections from 100,000 a year to under 10,000.
A welfare centre in Buriram registered under Section 3 as a hospice and palliative unit — 100 residents, 36 staff, 10 provinces served, and the reimbursement rules its director says need loosening.
An SAO in Prachin Buri uses LTC Fund money for home visits across 18 villages — care plans, safer homes, and health workers who already know the families they visit.
Why ThaiD is being wired into the Gold Card — verifying that the person receiving care is the rightful beneficiary, with 2FA, API tokens, and PDPA oversight behind it.
How one subdistrict municipality in Nakhon Phanom cares for 250 dependent older people at home — 60 trained caregivers, equipment from the LTC Fund, and jobs created in the community.
NHSO turns to mosques and pondok schools to reach people who use drugs — an estimated 1.9 million nationwide, of whom only one in ten has reached treatment.
