Public clinics rebranded as family medicine clinics to promote preventive care
發佈日期: 2025-10-10 20:12
TVB News
Starting tomorrow, 74 general out-patient clinics under the Hospital Authority will be renamed "Family Medicine Specialist Clinics," while community health centres will be renamed "Integrated Family Medicine Centres". That marks a shift from treatment-based services to a preventive-care model.
Consultation fees will remain unchanged.
The North District Family Medicine Integrated Centre, which began trial operation at the end of last year, opens today.
In addition to medical consultations, it provides chronic disease management, physiotherapy and occupational therapy services.
The centre also offers muscle training for the elderly and leverages digital tools to improve rehab and prescription dispensing efficiency, having served more than 130,000 people so far.
The Hospital Authority says if patients have conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking, chronic pulmonary disease or asthma, disease management and treatment would involve a multi-disciplinary team.
Under Secretary for Health Cecilia Fan, Hospital Authority Chairman Henry Fan, HA Chief Executive Libby Lee attended the opening ceremony.
There, the Hospital Authority also announced the renaming of the city's 74 general out-patient clinics and four community health centres as Family Medicine Specialist Clinics and Family Medicine Integrated Centres.
Cecilia Fan says the change in names entails a change in service concept, model and quality. In addition to disease treatment, family medicine clinics will provide health screening, and chronic disease management services so that the city's disadvantaged can enjoy preventive and comprehensive primary health services.
