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PPP “What” to purchase “From Whom” to purchase “How” to purchase
Elderly Health Care Services From whom to purchase Voucher mechanism
Voucher Scheme • Private primary care • Medical practitioners, • The annual voucher
(EHCVS) services Chinese medicine amount is HKD 2,000;
2009–present practitioners, dentists, accumulation limit is up
chiropractors, registered to HKD 8,000. The face
nurses and enrolled value of each voucher is
nurses, physiotherapists, HKD 1.
occupational therapists,
radiographers, medical
laboratory technologists
(the use of services
provided by allied health
professionals and
laboratory test services is
subject to the current
referral arrangement) and
optometrists (in Part I of
the register)

Outreach Dental Care Services From whom to purchase Contracting mechanism
Programme for the • On-site professional oral • A non-profit-making entity • Subvention to NGOs for
Elderly (ODCP) checkup and oral health and exempt from tax operating outreach
2014–present care including preventive under Section 88 of the dental teams reached
and curative dental Inland Revenue Ordinance HKD 52.5 millions in
treatments (Cap 112) 2020/21
• On-site care training and • Operates at least one • Interested institutions are
oral health education dental clinic for the public invited to submit an
activities for the elderly, at the application closing application during regular
their families, and date open calls
caregivers
• Comply with requirements • Once a contract is
under Section 12 of the granted, the PSP is
Dentists Registration expected to serve a period
Ordinance (Cap 156) at the of three years
application closing date
Colorectal Cancer Services From whom to purchase Fee-for-service mechanism
Screening Programme Primary Care Doctor (PCD) • Registered Medical • With (up to HKD 300 at
(CRCSP) • Process enrollment Practitioner under Medical the time of writing) or
2016–present Registration Ordinance without co-payment for
• Assess medical fitness for (Cap 161) consultations with PCD
screening
• Registered specialist of • The amount of government
• Issue collection tool for the Gastroenterology & subsidy for the “Standard
Faecal Immunochemical Hepatology (S17) or Package of Colonoscopy
Test (FIT) screening registered specialist of Service” is HKD 8,500 if
• Referral to colonoscopy General Surgery (S28) in polyp(s) is removed and is
examination upon FIT- the Specialist Register HKD 7,800 if no polyp(s)
positive result under that Ordinance as removal is needed
the CS • Any co-payment
Colonoscopy Specialist (CS) • Valid annual practising charged by the CS is
• One pre-procedural certificate subject to a cap of
consultation • Works in Private sector HKD 1,000 for
• Colonoscopy examination (including University and colonoscopy with and
without polyp(s) removal
as a day case including NGOs)
conscious sedation and • Has enrolled in eHRSS
consumables for the
removal of polyp
• Post-procedural
consultation(s) which is
optional and will be
required for explaining the
colonoscopy examination
result and subsequent
management

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