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Grassroots organizations set forth four major goals on the medical blueprint

2022-01-03T11:00:45.462Z


The Food and Environmental Hygiene Bureau will conduct consultations on the "Blueprint for Primary Care and Health Development" within this year. A group has proposed 4 specific goals on the blueprint, including the promotion of health knowledge, disease prevention, early intervention and community


The Food and Environmental Hygiene Bureau will conduct consultations on the "Blueprint for Primary Care and Health Development" within this year. A group has put forward 4 specific goals on the blueprint, including the promotion of health knowledge, disease prevention, early intervention, and community rehabilitation services.

One of the members of the Steering Committee of Primary Care and Health Development, Leung Cheuk Wai, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, pointed out that the most important point at the moment is to implement the establishment of a statutory medical management bureau for primary care to promote primary care policies.


As for being asked about his leaving the post of Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, he bluntly said, "I have been in this position for more than half a year, so Jiajing is talking about this position. The time for my transfer is any later. As the sixth chief executive, there is no candidate for the chief executive in the family. I don’t even need to explain the work after July 10."


The Food and Environmental Hygiene Bureau will conduct consultations on the "Blueprint for the Health Development of Primary Care" within this year. The blueprint will be based on the principles of district-based, public-private partnerships, and medical institutions, and will start by integrating services, strengthening supervision, and increasing training to improve Hong Kong. People’s health and relieve pressure on the Hospital Authority.

In accordance with the blueprint, the Hong Kong Association of Community Organizations, together with the Chronic Ill Patient Care Reform Joint and the Elderly Rights Alliance, today (3) put forward the "Primary Medical and Health Vision" to express the expectations of chronically ill patients and grassroots elders for medical health.

Jointly hope to optimize the use of public resources and benefit more people at less cost

After discussing with chronically ill patients and grassroots elders, the joint team put forward a series of visions.

Including health information, resource utilization, non-event services, medical and social links, etc.

The joint team pointed out that many citizens hope that there will be ways to obtain health information more easily, so as to effectively prevent diseases, and have sufficient knowledge and methods to deal with diseases; they also hope that the authorities have sufficient first qualifications to strengthen primary medical services and optimize public resources. Use, use less medical costs to benefit more people.

The four major goals include strengthening the medical community to increase disease prevention

The joint team put forward 4 specific goals for primary health care, including publicizing health knowledge, disease prevention, early intervention, and community rehabilitation services.

It is suggested that the government should set health indicators and provide annual health checkups. By integrating the rehabilitation services currently provided by different organizations, make good use of social resources and increase the link between medical institutions; establish community pharmacy services to facilitate chronic diseases in the community. Patients receive medicines, reducing the waiting time of patients in public hospital pharmacies, etc.

The group also suggested that the government incorporate patient self-help organizations into the primary health care system so that patients can obtain information more effectively.

The government should also incorporate patient self-help organizations into the service and policy consultation framework, treat patient organizations as partners, and invite them to participate in service planning.

Leung Cheuk-wai, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, pointed out that the most important thing at the moment is to implement the establishment of a statutory medical management bureau for primary medical care as a way to promote primary medical policies.

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Tony Leung fully agrees with the joint recommendation that the Medical Coordination Bureau can achieve synergy with the district health center

One of the members of the Steering Committee for Primary Care and Health Development and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, Leung Cheuk Wai, also attended. He fully agreed with the recommendations made by the joint and pointed to many "old problems". Therefore, he believes that the most important point is to implement targeted primary care. , The establishment of a statutory medical management bureau to promote primary medical policies.

He also pointed out that the Government will reorganize the structure of the Home Affairs Bureau in the future and hope that it can be fully utilized by then to achieve synergy with the district health center so that patients can receive appropriate medical services in the district.

Leung Zhuowei, Dean of the Hong Kong Medical College: No need to explain the work after July 10

Leung Cheuk Wai officially resigned at the end of this school year and will be appointed as the Jockey Club Charity and Community Affairs Executive Director.

When asked about his future job, he bluntly said, "I have been in this position for more than half a year, so Jiajing is talking about this position, because the time of my transfer is later than any sixth term. Chief Executive, so there is no candidate for Chief Executive at home, and I don’t even need to explain the work after July 10."

Leung Cheuk Wai pointed out that the authorities should make preparations if Mochizuki House's third-generation spreading needs to tighten social restrictions. Leung Cheuk Wai first appeared at the University of Hong Kong after announcing his resignation. He was awarded 1.3 billion by the Jockey Club. More than 9 million over the University of Hong Kong President Zhang Xiang Liang Zhuowei resigns the Dean of the University of Hong Kong School of Medicine Injecting students into the ward Liang Zhuowei: medical care has a moral responsibility

Source: hk1

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