Service Scope

The Southern District Health Centre will offer primary healthcare services through individual service sessions and group intervention as follows:

Primary Prevention Services, Secondary Prevention Services, Tertiary Prevention Services
Primary Prevention Services :
Health promotion and education programs for the prevention of diseases
Secondary Prevention Services :
Chronic disease screening, i.e. diabetes and high blood pressure screening. Targeted clients are screened and referred by network medical practitioners for medical laboratory services. Southern District Health Centre will arrange the appointment accordingly.
Tertiary Prevention Services :
Management of chronic diseases and community rehabilitation service.

Service Areas

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健康飲食、運動課程、體重管理、防跌課程／訓練、戒煙輔導、戒酒、睡眠衞生及心理健康

· Healthy diet, exercise, weight management, fall prevention training, smoking cessation counselling, alcohol withdrawal, sleep hygiene and mental health

健康評估：健康風險評估及糖尿病／高血壓的篩查

· Health assessment: health risk assessment and screening for diabetes/ hypertension;

慢性疾病管理：糖尿病、高血壓、肌肉骨骼問題（腰背痛或退化性膝關節痛症）

· Chronic disease management: diabetes, hypertension, musculoskeletal problems (low back pain or degenerative knee pain)

社區復康服務：髖骨折、急性心肌梗塞後期及中風。

· Community rehabilitation services: hip fracture, post-acute myocardial infarction and stroke

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Innovative Services

Innovative Service Projects

Target Group
Service Goals

Community Health Pathway for the excluded groups

People with less contact with community resources

To provide equal opportunities for citizens living in remote and inconvenient areas to access the services of the centre

Take the Community Pulse Programme

Middle class family with high risk in diabetes and hypertension

To identify people at high risk of diabetes and hypertension in earlier stage and formulate long-term service plans

Outdoor-based Community Reintegration Programme

People with rehabilitation needs

To rebuild the independent living ability of persons with disabilities or health conditions through outdoor-based community training and improve his/her quality of life

Wellbeing Prescription Scheme

People with high health risk

– Connect with individual healthcare services providers and medical practitioners in community and encourage high-risk individuals to participates in activities
– Promote medical-social collaboration

Southern Health Library Service & Healthcare Equipment Collection

People with high risk in health, low income and low education level

Introduce and lend suitable and advanced rehabilitation equipment to encourage self-management of health and improve health literacy

Client Journey

HEALTHY and MORE ……

Becoming a MEMBER

  • Individuals who are living or working in the Southern District
  • A holder of the Hong Kong Identity Card issued under the Registration of Persons Ordinance (Cap. 177, the Laws of Hong Kong) or the certificate of exemption
  • agree to enroll in eHRSS

Join us, and MORE！

．Come to Southern District Health Centre
(Core centre / satellite centres)

Contact and correspondences of centres

Be Healthy , and MORE?

You Can：

  • Do Health Risk Factors Assessment
  • Listen to health counselling
  • Set up Personal Health Goal
  • Lead a healthy life

Keep Healthy and MORE?

Healthy & with low health risk factors, join：

  • Self Management Service Program
  • Other health/ exercise / training programs
      (FREE of charge)

Becoming Healthy, and MORE?

If you are with high risk in Diabetes / Hypertension/Low Pack
Pain and degenerative joint diseases：

Please accept check up and diagnosis by Network Medical Practitioners

Join Chronic Disease Management Programmes

Receive Healthcare Services

Subsidy from the Government

Rehabilitation Services and MORE?

If you suffer from Stroke/Hip Fracture/Post-acute Myocardial Infraction ：

Referred by Hospital Authority, Network Medical Practitioners, or Primary Healthcare Doctors

AND assessed by the Care Coordinator

Join and book ：

Community Rehabilitation Services

Chronic Disease Management Services

Individual Healthcare services referred by Network Service Providers

Community Reintegration & Carers’ Training Programs

Government subsidies on Community Rehabilitation Services
/ Individual health Services

LET’S be your own 「Health NAVIGATOR」 ？

Have Annual health risk factors assessment

Stay tuned on Programs and Activities of S DHC

Service Charge

* Membership registration fees are free of charge. The membership will remain unchanged as long as participants continue to be eligible.

*For details, please contact our professional staff.

ServiceServices Charges* (HK$)
  • Health Risk Factors Assessment
  • Nursing Consultation & Health Education
  • Self-management Support Programme / Patient Empowerment Programme
  • Health Talks and Class Activities
  • Pharmacist Consultation
  • Social Worker Consultation
Free of charge

After medical assessment and referred by Family Doctor:
Stroke Rehabilitation Programme / Post-AMI Rehabilitation Programme / Hip Fracture Rehabilitation Programme

  • Physiotherapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Dietetic Service
  • Speech Therapy (Stroke Rehabilitation Programme only)

HKD$150 Per session
#(referred by the Hospital Authority: HKD$100)

After medical assessment and referred by Family Doctor:
Low back pain (LBP) Programme / Osteoarthritic (OA) knee pain Programme

  • Physiotherapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Dietetic Service
  • Chinese Medicine Service (eg. Acupuncture)
HKD$150 Per session#

* Members who have participated in the Elderly Health Care Voucher Scheme can pay for DHC services from their Health Care Voucher account.

# Fee Waiver

  • Recipients of Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA);
  • Recipients of Higher Old Age Living Allowance (OALA) aged 75 or above;
  • Holders of Residential Care Service Voucher (RCSV) at level 0;
  • Medical waiver granted by the Hospital Authority (HA).

# The above categories of persons will be granted full or partial waiver of the relevant medical fees in accordance with the Hospital Authority’s current medical fee waiver mechanism upon provision of relevant proof. All information is subject to final revision.

Subsidy & Co-Payment of Chronic Disease Co-Care Pilot Scheme

Screening Phase
  • Include screening consultation and related laboratory investigations and examinations
  • The Government will provide a one-off fixed subsidy of $196 to cover the relevant expenses. Scheme Participant will only need to pay a one-off co-payment fee of $120
Treatment PhaseConsultation and Drug
  • The Government will provide a partial subsidy of $166 for each subsidised consultation, while Scheme Participant will only need to pay the co-payment fee determined by Family Doctor upon enrolment to the Scheme.
    The Government recommended co-payment fee is $150
  • No additional payment on receiving drugs under the list of Specified Drugs and/or up to 3 days of drugs for episodic illnesses
Laboratory Investigation
  • The Government will provide a partial subsidy for each item. Scheme Participant only has to pay the co-payment fee
Nurse Clinic and Allied Health Services
  • The Government will provide a partial subsidy for each subsidised visit
  • Scheme Participant only has to pay the co-payment fee
  • General Information
  • Eligibility
  • Service Package and Fee
  • Sharing of the information through eHRSS
A1: The DHC is a primary healthcare initiative of the Government. Through public-private partnership, medical-social collaboration, it provides district-based primary healthcare services aiming to:
  • Enhance public awareness of disease prevention and their capability in self-management of health;
  • Drive healthy lifestyle for prevention of chronic disease;
  • Support the chronically ill to prevent deterioration; and
  • Enhance client access to primary healthcare services
A2: The core team of the DHC consists of nurses, a physiotherapist, an occupational therapist, a dietitian, a pharmacist as well as social workers.
A1: Individuals living or working in the district of the corresponding DHC.
A1: Clients who have risk factors identified through the screening for diabetes mellitus or hypertension under the DHC scheme will be referred to the DHC Network Medical Practitioners.
A2: All of the group activities are free, as well as the individual healthcare services provided by nurse, pharmacist and social worker at the DHC. Individual healthcare services including medical consultation, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, dietetics, optometry assessment, speech therapy, podiatry, Chinese medicine services and medical laboratory services require co-payment by the DHC client.
A3: : Civil servants and Hospital Authority staff have to make the co-payment for DHC services.
A4: Yes, healthcare service sessions are provided based on clinical needs, and the maximum number of sessions for different DHC programmes has been set.
A5: Beyond the maximum number of subsidised sessions, the client has to pay the fees charged by the Network Service Provider.
A6: Under the Scheme, the DHC client can receive subsidised healthcare professional services for the targeted diseases within the scope as specified. Individual clients may receive additional service(s) or treatment at their own expenses.
A7: Government subsidy for the chronic disease management programme includes medical consultation, medical laboratory services, Chinese medicine and individual allied health service sessions, but not medication.
A8: Clients who have participated in the Elderly Health Care Voucher Scheme can pay for DHC services from their Health Care Voucher accounts.
A9: Registration with the DHC Scheme is entirely voluntary. Clients who wish to withdraw from the scheme can inform the DHC operator.
A10: Yes. Eligible clients are welcome to register as DHC member any time.
A1: To facilitate continuity of care, all DHC clients and Network Service Providers are required to enrol in the eHRSS. With prior consent from the client, clinical information will be shared with the service providers through the eHRSS, on a need-to-know basis.
A2: All DHC members must enrol in the eHRSS. The DHC will not be able to provide a coordinated service effectively to the client who withdraws from the eHRSS. The client will have to terminate his / her membership of the DHC Scheme.

Note: Subject to mutual agreement, Family Doctor may charge the Scheme Participant for services outside the service scope of the Scheme.

醫療券 health care voucher Elderly Health Care Voucher (including the reward under Pilot Reward Scheme) is applicable to the Scheme.

Medical fee waiver is not applicable to the Scheme.