Several things you need to know …

Family doctors are responsible for contracted services, including general practitioners, rural health hospitals and rural doctors, and should have certain contracted service capabilities. 

The composition of family doctor in hong kong has different connotations at different stages of health development, because of the shortage of primary health care workers, especially the shortage of general practitioners of the “5+3″ standard. Other types of doctors are allowed to supplement.

Medical and health services are mainly disease diagnosis and treatment, with discontinuous and irresponsible attributes. Establish a hierarchical medical model, develop GP contract services, and implement individualized responsibility of doctors

A general practitioner is a doctor who has undergone general practice training and is qualified to practice general medicine, including general practitioners, assistant general practitioners and Chinese general practitioners. GPs are the main component of family doctors.

With the expansion of the general practitioner workforce and the improvement of the overall service capacity, the proportion of family doctors will gradually expand and eventually realize the ideal state of family doctors as general practitioners.

For the residents, the form of contract encourages family doctors to be the gate-keeper of the residents’ health, providing them with quality basic medical, public health and health management services and saving their medical expenses.

With the gradual establishment of the family doctor contract service system, family doctors will receive a stable and predictable income from the contract service fee, have the “health gatekeeper rights", “fund gatekeeper rights" and “community health resources deployment rights" of the residents, and receive the support of large hospital outpatient clinics, wards and related technical resources.

Should the family doctor visit the clinic after the contract is signed?

Family doctor" is a title that reflects the difference between the primary service model and the large hospital service model, and is only applicable to residents with special needs and mobility difficulties who visit the hospital within the framework of the agreement.