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About Us
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.

Scope of work
Professional development
Quality assurance
Primary care clinical services and health promotion
Evidence based health care
Primary health care study

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
 
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