Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region
LCQ13: Operation and services of Chinese Medicine Hospital of Hong Kong
Question:
The Chinese Medicine Hospital of Hong Kong (CMHHK) is a flagship project for the development of Chinese medicine (CM) in Hong Kong, commencing phased operations and service provision at the end of last year. CMHHK adopts a public-private partnership model with its construction fully funded by the Government. The Administration has pointed out that the public-private partnership model enables the provision of market-oriented CM services, which can both attract alternative sources of revenue and foster positive interaction between CMHHK and the market. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
(1) whether it knows the number of attendances at CMHHK since its commissioning, including the number of attendances under subsidised outpatient services, market-oriented outpatient services and day inpatient services, and the respective proportions of such attendances;
(1) Within the first year after service commencement, CMHHK primarily provides outpatient and day-patient services. Through the co-operation between multidisciplinary clinical teams, CMHHK aims to develop a mature collaborative model, laying the groundwork for the full-scale launching of various services. From the commencement on December 11, 2025 to September 30, 2026, the service attendances for CMHHK’s outpatient (non-inpatient) services are tabulated below:
| Outpatient (Non-inpatient) services (Note) To facilitate multilateral collaboration, CMHHK is actively exploring collaboration opportunities with CM and Western medicine (WM) healthcare institutions in both the public and private sectors, including expansion of ICWM services, so as to gradually develop a “Hong Kong model” of ICWM services with CM playing the predominant role. As an “open hospital”, CMHHK welcomes the industry to participate in hospital work in different ways, with a view to promoting patient flow, talent flow and knowledge flow, and thereby promoting the overall development of CM in Hong Kong.Issued at HKT 15:30 NNNN |