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Subtheme 2.2 – The Government has a key role in further advancing primary
healthcare development. Nearly all interviewees agreed on the importance and
effectiveness of promoting PHC, yet its development has not progressed in past years.
The lack of central coordination of service providers in the private and
public sectors was cited by stakeholders as a contributor to widespread confusion and
overlapping of efforts between the two sectors, slowing down the progression of PHC
development in Hong Kong.

Stakeholders’ voices

It’s quite slow. I think because we do not have very good visions on what
we want to do with primary care, especially with the public/private sector
working together, so there has not been very good development. I think
many things are unclear, [like] what is the role of the Government and
what is the role of the private sectors, so there’s a lot of hesitations to
involve the private sector.
Academic

Another problem is that primary care is now controlled by
private physicians instead of the Government.
Academic

The development is really slow, because the
Government did not provide a centralised system,
nor good coordinating policies.
NGO representative

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