The Plan de Intervenciones Colectivas (PIC) and territorial health planning from the nursing side

What it is

The Public Health Plan of Collective Interventions (Plan de Salud Pública de Intervenciones Colectivas, PIC) is a set of free interventions aimed at the population and delivered in the everyday settings of each territory and micro-territory. Today it is governed by MinSalud Resolution 1597 of 30 July 2025, which sets the rules for integrated territorial public health management, including public health management and the PIC, within the Ten-Year Public Health Plan and the APS strategy. It replaced Resolution 518 of 2015. Departments, districts and municipalities formulate the PIC from their health situation analysis, contract it mainly with the public hospitals (ESE) and implement it through basic health teams, whose nurses and nursing assistants deliver many of its actions.

Key articles

• Art. 1: object: rules for integrated territorial public health management, including public health management and the PIC, within the Ten-Year Public Health Plan and APS.
• Art. 2: applies to territorial entities, public, private and mixed providers, EPS, the Superintendencia Nacional de Salud, the Instituto Nacional de Salud and social and community agents.
• Art. 4: territorial entities align this management with the territorial health plan and the health action plans, in line with the Ten-Year Plan.
• Art. 10: definition of the PIC; the collective interventions are those listed in the health maintenance route (Res. 3280 of 2018) or the rule that replaces it.
• Art. 11: the formulation produces a technical annex with, among others, territories and micro-territories, population, expected results, goals by setting, number and profiles of basic health teams and indicators.
• Art. 12: departments, districts and municipalities contract the PIC with the ESE; it is implemented through basic health teams in everyday settings and cannot be subcontracted, except support activities such as supplies or transport.
• Art. 13: monthly follow-up and yearly evaluation by the territory; quarterly monitoring and yearly evaluation by the Ministry; results shared through accountability processes.
• Art. 19: contracted institutions provide all the staff that make up the basic health teams, work with community organisations, document their actions and support citizen oversight.
• Art. 29: in force from its issue; repeals Res. 518 of 2015 and Res. 295 of 2023, except numeral 14.1 of art. 14 of Res. 518, which stays until Decree-Laws 968 of 2024 and 480 of 2025 are regulated.

What it covers

• Integrated territorial public health management (Title II).
• Public health management, an essential function of the State that cannot be delegated (art. 8).
• The PIC: definition, formulation, implementation, monitoring and contracting requirements (art. 10 to 14).
• Responsibilities of departments, districts, municipalities and contracted institutions, and the use of the collective public health funds.

In nursing practice

• The PIC is free and aimed at the whole population, so the nurse offers its actions to everyone in the setting.
• Nurses in basic health teams deliver PIC actions such as health information, health education, screening, community networks and community-based rehabilitation, by setting.
• Document each intervention in the agreed format: monthly follow-up and evaluation depend on those records.
• Coordinate PIC actions with the EPS's individual interventions so the family gets complete, continuous care.
• For Indigenous populations, the territorial entities keep following Res. 518 of 2015, Res. 295 of 2023 and Circular 11 of 2018 until the new decree-laws are regulated (art. 14, paragraph).

Status and official text

• Official text verified on 2026-11-13 at minsalud.gov.co (PDF of Res. 1597 of 2025).
• Repealed Res. 518 of 2015 and Res. 295 of 2023 (art. 29), except numeral 14.1 of art. 14 of Res. 518, until Decree-Laws 968 of 2024 and 480 of 2025 are regulated.
• Legal compilations report that Res. 1801 of 2026 corrected the wording of some numerals of articles 12 and 19 and of article 27; its text could not be opened on minsalud.gov.co in this review: confirm it before use.
• Background (Res. 518 of 2015, recitals): Law 1122 of 2007, art. 33, replaced the former basic care plan (PAB) with the PIC.

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Elsewhere in DurgiPedia

• The Ten-Year Public Health Plan
• Comprehensive health care pathways (RIAS)

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Sources: Resolución 1597 de 2025: disposiciones para la gestión territorial integral de la salud pública, incluida la Gestión en Salud Pública y el PIC (Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social, Colombia, 2025); Resolución 518 de 2015: Gestión de la Salud Pública y Plan de Salud Pública de Intervenciones Colectivas (derogada) (Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social, Colombia, 2015); Lineamientos para la organización y operación de los Equipos Básicos de Salud (Resolución 2788 de 2022): intervenciones colectivas por entorno (Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social, Colombia, 2023).

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