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PPP “What” to purchase “From Whom” to purchase “How” to purchase
Purchaser: Others
Elderly Dental Services From whom to purchase Fee-for-service mechanism
Assistance • Oral examination • NGOs running home- • A maximum subsidy of
Programme • Dentures and other related based services, home HKD 14,700 for dental
2012–present and necessary dental help, elderly centres, services for each
services (scaling and community centres and beneficiary; no co-payment
from participants
dental clinics
polishing, fillings, tooth
Purchaser: extractions and X-ray • Community Care’s • A referral fee of HKD 50
Community Care examination) dentists/dental clinics per referral by NGOs
Fund; whilst Hong • Provision of accompanying • An accompanying service
Kong Dental service to the older fee of HKD 70 per hour
Association being the population in need of for applicants who are
implementing agent support users of the home care/
home help services (if
applicable)
Community Care Fund Services Programme administer and Fee-for-service mechanism
Pilot Scheme on • Cervical smear services coordinator • HKD 78.61 millions is
Subsidised Cervical • DH approved to fund the
Cancer Screening and programme, though the
Preventive Education From whom to purchase disbursement amount as
for Eligible Low- • Applications are only at 30 April 2020 was less
than 1% (HKD 0.38
Income Women accepted by non-profit- million).
(CCF Pilot Scheme) making institutions • Service charges for
2017–present beneficiaries of Group 1 of
Assistance is free of
charge; service charges
Purchaser: for beneficiaries of Group 2
Community Care Fund of Assistance is HKD 100.
Sources: Chen et al., 2016; CHP, n.d., 2020a, 2020d, 2021a; Commission on Poverty of the HKSAR Government, 2019; DH, n.d.-b, n.d.-a, 2016;
FHB, n.d.-a, 2019, 2020b; HA, 2016b, 2016a, 2018, 2021c, 2021i, 2021e, 2021d, 2021a, 2021g; HKSARG, 2017a, 2017b, 2019b, 2019a,
2020c, 2021c; Hong Kong Economic Times, 2020; Legislative Council of the HKSAR, 2021; Legislative Council Panel on Health Services,
2011, 2014, 2019, 2020; Legislative Council Panel on Home Affairs, 2020; Lian et al., 2019; Ming Pao, 2020; Ng, 2012; Wan et al., 2015;
Wong et al., 2016

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