Primary care physicians to play larger role under Healthier SG

Healthier SG is Singapore's new preventive care strategy aimed at getting family doctors to help individuals take charge of their health. Insight looks at the benefits as well as some of the unanswered questions in this mega healthcare transformation strategy.

Primary care physicians will play a much larger role when Healthier SG rolls out in the second half of 2023. PHOTO: ST FILE
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SINGAPORE - When Ms Vivien Goh's 81-year-old mother was still feverish a few days after being discharged from hospital in 2021, the family took her to their regular general practitioner (GP), who advised them to have her readmitted.

They did as he said as they knew how familiar he was with her case.

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