According to Rule of Business 2016, Functions of Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Department are as under:
- Health management, planning and policy.
- Policy or guidelines relating to Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Department.
- Medical profession:
- Regulation of medical and other professional qualifications and standards.
- Medical practitioners ( National Service) Act, 1950.
- Medical registration including Medical and Dental Council.
- Medical attendance of government servants.
- Guidelines regarding levy of fee by medical officers.
- Medical Treatment of Government employees officers.
- Medical Treatment of general public.
- Medical and Nursing Council.
- Medical education including Medical Schools and Colleges and institution of Dentistry.
- Medical institutions, blood transfusion services.
- Collection, compilation, registration and analysis of vital health statistics and estimation of population for future projections.
- Matters relating to nursing:
- Administrative control of the entire nursing cadre in the Province in respect of those working under the department or In the teaching hospitals.
- Education (local and foreign) service and pay structure of nursing cadre.
- Preparation of development schemes, budget, schedule of new expenditure and annual development program proposals.
- Budget, accounts and audit matters.
- Purchase of stores and capital goods for the department.
- Service matters except those entrusted to Services and General Administration Department.
- Administration of the following laws and the rules framed there-under:
- The Public Health (Emergency Provisions) Ordinance, 1944.
- Eye Surgery (Restriction) Ordinance 1960.
- Allopathic System (prevention of misuse) Ordinance, 1962.
- Pakistan Medical and Dental Council Ordinance, 1962.
- Pharmacy Act, 1967.
- The Pakistan Nursing Council Act, 1973.
- Drugs Act, 1976.
- Medical & Dental Degree Ordinance 1982.
- Punjab Health Foundation Act, 1992.
- Punjab Transfusion of Safe Blood Ordinance 1999.
- Mental Health Ordinance for Pakistan 2001.
- Punjab Medical and Health Institutions Act 2003.
- Injured Persons (Medical Aid Act) 2004.
- King Edward Medical University, Lahore Act, 2005
- Human Organ Transplant Ordinance, 2007.
- Pakistan College of Physicians and Surgeons Ordinance, 1962.
- The University of Health Sciences Lahore Ordinance, 2002.
- Fatima Jinnah Medical University, Lahore Act 2015.
- Matters incidental and ancillary to the above subjects.
