Transforming Singapore's healthcare delivery system: health care integration in Singapore

The vision for transforming healthcare delivery in Singapore is to develop integrated Regional Health Services (RHS) to provide healthcare from prevention to palliation. Under the RHS concept, each region would be anchored by an acute-care hospital working in close partnership with other healthcare providers in the region, e.g. general physicians (GPs), polyclinics, community hospitals (CHs), nursing homes (NHs) and home care providers. Formalized partnerships, integrated clinical pathways and care coordinators working with a multi-disciplinary team over the patient's lifetime would help keep the care continuous, seamless and appropriate. Achieving this vision will require us to (i) significantly build up the ILTC and primary care sectors; and (ii) restructure our public healthcare system and strengthen the enablers and linkages between providers in each region to better integrate care and enable the entire system to work as it should.

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