The quest for a healthier Singapore

Healthier SG is Singapore's new preventive care strategy to encourage people to enrol with a GP who will help them manage their health. Insight looks at some of the unanswered questions in this national preventive care programme.

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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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