Preventive visit in the system of control and supervisory activities, its role and possible consequences: what the heads of medical organizations need to know.

The article presents a detailed analysis of the preventive visit as one of the most common preventive measures in the system of control and surveillance activities today. The authors made and substantiated a number of conclusions to which managers of medical organizations need to pay close attention. It is emphasized that a medical organization should prepare for a preventive visit in the most careful way as one of the most important activities in the system of control and surveillance activities, designed to ensure that the controlled person not only knows the mandatory requirements, but also ensures their strict implementation. If during a preventive visit it is established that the objects of control pose a clear immediate threat of causing harm (damage) to legally protected values or such harm (damage) has been caused, then the consequences of the preventive visit may be any provided for by Federal Law of July 31, 2020 № 248 – Federal Law “On State Control (Supervision) and Municipal Control in the Russian Federation” unscheduled control (supervisory) activities, i. e. unscheduled inspections. The consequences of a preventive visit, as well as the consequences of refusing it, may be control (supervision) activities carried out without interaction with the controlled person. In turn, carrying out control (supervisory) activities without interaction with the controlled person does not require coordination with the prosecutor’s office. A preventive visit is to a large extent an integral preventive measure, since, on the one hand, it can end with another preventive measure – the announcement of a warning. At the same time, on the other hand, during a preventive visit, counseling can be carried out, which is also an independent type of preventive measures. Heads of medical organizations should not refuse to conduct a preventive visit, since in this case the risks of carrying out other activities in relation to the medical organization, implemented in the system of control and supervisory activities, increase significantly.