Family doctor program strikes roots in communities
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THE Putuo District health authority is promoting the family doctor program among local residents. People with diseases beyond the ability of family doctors at community health centers will be referred to district- or city-level hospitals.
Family doctors can help patients make appointments with big hospitals. After they are treated there and their conditions become stable, the patients will be sent back to the community health centers for further treatment and rehabilitation.
The Putuo Health and Family Planning Commission is negotiating with six city-level hospitals (Huashan Hospital, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai No. 1 People’s Hospital, Shanghai No. 6 People’s Hospital, Shanghai No. 10 People’s Hospital, and Tongji Hospital) to receive patients referred by family doctors in Putuo.
Meanwhile, the Putuo District Central Hospital, Putuo District People’s Hospital and Putuo Liqun Hospital have formed a support system for family doctors and pooled their resources to run a cardiac disease center, an imaging center and a diagnostic testing center. Family doctors can send patient files to the three centers for expert diagnosis.
So far, 11 community health centers have joined the support system.
Putuo residents can get the same medicines at local health centers as in a district- or a city-level hospital. Patients of chronicle diseases can receive one month or two months’ supply of medicines, instead of only two to four weeks’ supply.
The family doctor support system is first tested at Changzheng Community Health Center and Caoyang Community Health Center. Since May, 1,721 residents have signed up for the family doctor program. Changzheng Community Health Center has 25 family doctors serving 1,180 residents who signed the contracts. The district hospital reserves 10 to 20 percent of its clinical resources for patients referred by family doctors.
The number of family doctors in Putuo reached 292 in July. And 756,500 residents have signed up for the family doctor program with 105,100 having visited local health centers. A total of 14,106 patients were referred to large hospitals for specialist treatment during the period.
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