Chinese Medicine Clinical Services
The Chinese Medicine Hospital of Hong Kong (CMHHK) will serve as the flagship Chinese medicine (CM) (中醫) institution leading the development of CM including Chinese medicines (中藥) in Hong Kong. It will be a change driver, promoting service development, education and training, innovation and research, and facilitating collaboration with both local and international parties. The CMHHK will execute and implement the Government’s policy on CM.
Through government subsidising defined CM services, the CMHHK will become an integral part of the healthcare system of Hong Kong. A comprehensive range of CM clinical and supporting services will be provided with details as follows:
Service scope
(1) | Inpatient & Day-patient |
(2) | Outpatient |
(3) | Community Outreach Services |
Service type
(1) | Pure CM Services
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(2) | Services with CM playing the predominant role
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(3) | Integrated Chinese-Western Medicine Services
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Learn more about Clinical consultations between CM practitioners and western medicine doctors.
Disease category
Services will cover episodic and chronic diseases, complex diseases, convalescence, rehabilitation, palliative care, health maintenance and preventive care and other disease categories.
Types of services not to be included in the CMHHK
To ensure that the CMHHK will develop along the CM predominant model, the accident and emergency services, general anaesthetic surgical services, intensive care services, child delivery services will not be available.