Policy Address

Advance Primary Healthcare Development

186. The Government will promote the development of primary healthcare on all fronts, including:

1. formulating legislation to strengthen the regulatory framework of primary healthcare and authorise the PHC Commission to set up quality assurance and monitoring mechanisms;

2. developing a community drug formulary and launching a community pharmacy programme to help the public obtain affordable, primary-healthcare drugs through central purchasing and the community network;

3. devising health promotion strategies by adopting a life-course framework to formulate health management plans for the public according to age and health conditions;

4. revamping maternal and child health and family-planning services to strengthen pre-pregnancy counselling and parental education and promote healthy fertility;

5. strengthening the Whole School Health Programme to recommend targeted school-based measures for physical activities, meals and other matters for each school to improve students' physical and psychological well-being;