Lifelong Investment in Health

Consultation Document on Health Care Reform

  • Click here to read the table of contents and download individual chapters.

  • Click here to download the whole document in Adobe Acrobat portable document format (pdf)* (2.4M).

  • Click here to download the pamphlet in Adobe Acrobat pdf.

  • Click here to read the press release.

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Hard copies of the document are available from the Public Enquiry Service Centres of District Offices, the Health InfoWorld in the Hospital Authority Building, the Patient Resource Centres in public hospitals, and the General Out-patient Clinics of the Department of Health

Your Comments are Welcome

Please send your comments on this Consultation Document before 15 March 2001 to:-

Health Care Reform Unit
Health and Welfare Bureau
19-20/F Murray Building
Garden Road, Central, Hong Kong

or by fax to: (852) 2840 0467

or by e-mail to: hcr@hwb.gcn.gov.hk

Contents

(All files are in Adobe Acrobat pdf.   Click here to download Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0. )

1. Background Download
2. Vision and Policy Objectives Download

3.

 Reforms to the Health Care Delivery System Download
- The Challenge
- Strengthen Preventive Care
- Re-organise Primary Medical Care
- Develop a Community-focused,   Patient-centred and Knowledge-based Integrated Health Care Service
- Improve Public/Private Interface
- Facilitate Dental Care
- Promote Chinese Medicine

4.

 Improvements to the System of Quality Assurance Download
- The Challenge
- Enhance Quality Assurance
- Improve Patient Complaint Mechanisms

5.

 Options for Financing Health Care Service Download
- The Challenge
- Reduce Costs
- Revamp Fees Structure
- Establish Health Protection Accounts
6. Summing Up Download
7. Executive Summary Download
8. Annex - Public responses to the Harvard Report Download

 

Your Comments are Welcome

Please send your comments on this Consultation Document before 15 March 2001 to:-

Health Care Reform Unit
Health and Welfare Bureau
19-20/F, Murray Building
Garden Road, Central, Hong Kong

or by fax to: (852) 2840 0467

or e-mail to: hcr@hwb.gcn.gov.hk