Yantian introduces HK family doctors

A consulting room in which Hong Kong family doctors are introduced to provide medical services was inaugurated in the Pengwan Community Health Center of Shenzhen Yantian District People’s Hospital recently, Shenzhen Economic Daily reported.

The consulting room, the first of its kind in Shenzhen, will introduce Hong Kong’s certified general practitioners (GPs) to offer family medicine services.

The inauguration ceremony of the Hong Kong family doctors consulting room in Pengwan Community in Yantian District. Courtesy of Yantian District health bureau

By 2025, 30 GPs and 30 community nurses will be trained in batches, and five Hong Kong family medicine consulting rooms will be set up.

Meanwhile, five GPs and five general practice nurses will be trained for Yantian in 2023.

Yantian District has also planned to cultivate a group of GPs with international service capabilities, build a number of Hong Kong family medicine consulting rooms, open up a new path for cross-border commercial insurance payment between Hong Kong and the mainland, and enhance Shenzhen-Hong Kong medical collaboration.

The consulting room’s inauguration also offered an opportunity to explore new development models for healthcare service integration in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, according to the district’s health bureau.