Policy Address

  1. upgrading more District Health Centre Expresses into District Health Centres (DHCs), and expanding the service network, and integrating the services of Woman Health Centres and Elderly Health Centres;

  2. expanding the Chronic Disease Co-Care Pilot Scheme to cover blood lipid testing; positioning the HA's general out-patient services as the comprehensive, primary healthcare service providers for the underprivileged;

  3. formulating risk-based screening programmes for prevalent cancers on a gradual basis, including breast cancer screening, exploring the use of AI to assist lung cancer screening, and implementing hepatitis B screening to prevent liver cancer;

  4. launching a Primary Dental Co-Care Pilot Scheme for Adolescents to encourage the prevention of dental diseases, as well as a Community Dental Support Programme to enhance dental services for underprivileged groups. This would include elderly persons in financial hardship, replacing the Community Care Fund Elderly Dental Assistance Programme, and introducing preventive dental services for pre-school children; and

  5. continuing efforts in tobacco control.