The Hong Kong Grassroots Medical Agency was officially established on Monday (July 15). The SAR Government will develop new laws and empower the new grass -roots medical department to establish a service quality assurance mechanism.
The Hong Kong Government announced on the same day, announced that the grass -roots medical department of the Medical and Health Bureau (referred to as the Medical Bureau) was officially established to undertake the work of the existing grass -roots medical and health offices.
According to reports, Dr. Peng Feizhou, a grass -roots medical health specialist, will lead the grass -roots medical department to specialize in management, standard formulation, quality assurance and personnel training related to grass -roots medical care, and, Plan grass -roots medical and health services and distribution resources by strategic procurement, thereby strengthening the overall grassroots medical services.The Hong Kong Government will also establish a grass -roots medical committee on the same day to assist the Grassroots Medical Department to effectively use its functions and exercise its powers.
Since its establishment in 2019, the grass -roots medical and health offices have been monitoring and supervising the development of primary medical and health services. After that, the primary medical health blueprint was announced at the end of 2022, listing specific suggestions and implementation plans, and for the grassroots of Hong Kong at the grassroots level in Hong KongThe future development of medical and health draws a strategic roadmap.The goal of the Hong Kong Government is to fully reorganize the medical system. The current pattern of treatment -based and hospital -centered patterns, reversing into a system of preventing and community -centered, and putting more resources to promote grass -roots medical care.
Lu Chongmao, director of the Hong Kong Medical and Health Bureau, said that as a specialized institution for the development of primary medical care, the grass -roots medical department will continue to go to the past to better coordinate the management of grass -roots medical services, formulate standards and establish quality in the public and private sectors.Protection mechanism.The grass -roots Medical Department will integrate and coordinate the grass -roots medical services provided by the Department of Health, Hospital Administration (Hospital Management Bureau), non -governmental institutions, and different units provided by different units in the private medical community, as well as the development of new services and management models to consolidate in all aspectsAnd promote the development of grassroots medical care.
He also said that the Department of Health will continue to maintain its public health functions, plan the overall public health strategy of Hong Kong, and role in regulatory and law enforcement, including optimizing the approval and approval of regulatory drug devices.The Medical Management Bureau focuses on providing public hospital services and related medical and rehabilitation services for citizens. Under the policies formulated by the grass -roots Medical Department, they focus on providing an indispensable safety network for those who are unable to afford medical expenses.Relevant division of labor will help positioning grassroots medical care as the basis of medical service pyramids, and at the same time, it will be controlled by the second and third -level specialty medical services of hospitals and medical institutions.
The Hong Kong Government will study and formulate new laws to give the primary medical department permissions and legal power, including defining the service quality of grass -roots medical service providers, reviewing and monitoring relevant personnel, and establishing a private primary medical service provision for providing private primary medical services provisionThe service standards of the person, as well as the establishment of service quality assurance mechanism.
