| The Professional Development and Quality Assurance (PD&QA) of the Department of Health comprises five clinics: the Ngau Tau Kok Centre, Chai Wan Families Clinic, Hong Kong Families Clinic, Kowloon Families Clinic and New Territories Families Clinic. Our mission is to provide quality assured personal health services and supports the practice of professional development and quality assurance activities within Department of Health and primary health care.
We are a group of family physicians, nurses and healthcare personnel with interest in professional development and quality assurance activities. We strive to provide and support quality assured personal health services.
| Objectives |
| 1. |
To organize relevant professional development programs for healthcare service providers. |
| 2. |
To support the development of quality assurance activities and clinical audit. |
| 3. |
To provide quality primary care services to civil servants, their dependants and the pensioners. |
| 4. |
To support and implement health promotion plan of the department. |
| 5. |
To establish an electronic web-based platform to facilitate evidence-based medicine practice. |
| 6. |
To conduct studies relevant to primary health care. |
| Professional development |
| Organize seminars/ training programs |
| Support professional expertise development |
| Collaborate with other healthcare organizations in development of professional development programs |
| Quality assurance |
| Establish a service Quality Assurance (QA) committee |
| Organize workshops/ courses on quality improvement |
| Support clinical audit projects |
| Connect with overseas experts to further develop our local QA system |
| Clinical audit |
| Primary care clinical services and health promotion |
| Provide quality care to civil servants, their dependents and the pensioners |
| Implement evidence-based clinical guidelines/protocols |
| Establish a health promotion team to support DH's health promotion plan |
| Collaborate with other services of the department in health promotion activities |
| Evidence-based health care |
| Establish an electronic web-based platform |
| Develop guidelines to practice evidence-based health care |
| Publish electronic version of primary care newsletter |
| Connect with other experts in medical informatics |
| Primary health care studies |
| Conduct studies relevant to primary health care |
| Diffuse the studies results through internet and journal publication |
| Collaborate with other organizations to plan further studies | |
