Medical Social Services ( Hospital Authority )
Collaborates closely with other healthcare professionals and community organizations to enable our clients coping with their problems arising from illness and disabilities through counselling, discharge planning, as well as mobilization of community resources.
Our Vision
To strives for quality and patient-centered Medical Social Services for patients and their families.
Our Mission
- Assist patients and their families to cope with emotional and social problems arising from illness, disabilities and crisis.
- Enable patients to have total rehabilitation and reintegration into the community.
Our Service
- Psychosocial assessment
- Counselling to patients and their families
- Discharge / care planning and follow‐up services
- Mobilization of community resources
- Development of self‐help / therapeutic groups
- Development of patient empowerment programs
- Advocacy of patient’s right and benefit
- Empirical research
We provide services in the following units:
- Patient Resource Centre
- Integrated Care and Discharge Support for Elderly Patients
- Cancer Care and Support Unit
- Li Ka Shing Foundation Hospice Service Programme
- Student Mental Health Support Scheme