
How universal health coverage is driving homegrown health innovation
NHSO is channeling UCS funding into Thai-developed medical innovations, allocating 7.28 billion baht in FY2026 to products on the Thai Innovation List.
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NHSO is channeling UCS funding into Thai-developed medical innovations, allocating 7.28 billion baht in FY2026 to products on the Thai Innovation List.

During Songkran and Family Day, NHSO urged Thais to use the UCS's free preventive care package, which covers five life stages from pregnancy through old age.

Marking World Hearing Day, NHSO expanded free newborn hearing screening under the UCS, with follow-up care from hearing aids to cochlear and auditory brainstem implants.

NHSO Secretary-General Dr. Jadej explains how the S-A-F-E framework—Sustainability, Adequacy, Fairness, Efficiency—keeps Thailand's tax-funded UCS viable for 47 million people.

NHSO's 2023 review covers 47.2 million UCS beneficiaries and ten areas of progress, including 13 new health benefits, after-hours clinics, and an upgraded 1330 contact center.

NHSO argues that trust-building and public participation, not just financing, made the UCS work — helping cut catastrophic health spending from 7.94% to 1.93% of households.