As Singapore’s leading agency in health promotion and preventive care, HPB forms strategic alliances with healthcare partners to establish a coordinated approach to health promotion, to better serve the healthcare needs of the population.
The Healthcare Partnership Team, under HPB’s Healthy Ageing Division, spearheads the development and management of healthcare partnerships.
The mission of the Healthcare Partnership Team is to create infrastructure in health promotion through healthcare partnerships to achieve a healthy community.
The two key focus areas are:
Healthcare Professionals
Healthcare professionals like yourself are HPB’s key partners in the prevention of ill health and promotion of holistic health to your patients. Either through your practice or in the community, HPB can support you to stay equipped with up-to-date, best practice, evidence-based approaches.
We are currently engaging with the following groups of healthcare professionals, and look forward to growing our partnerships:
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Community Functional Screening Follow-Up Resource for Primary Care Doctors is a resource to provide primary care doctors with practical information and follow-up management advice to older adults (aged 60 and above) referred via the Community Functional Screening Programme for decline in physical function, mood, continence, hearing, vision and oral health.
Allied Health Professionals
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For more information on diseases and conditions, click here
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Dentists and Dental Therapists
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There are three priority areas where HPB can support your professional needs:
- Create infrastructure to engage partners in health promotion
- Promote evidence-based interventions to improve health outcomes
- Strengthen inter-agency collaboration to achieve synergistic alliances
Our three key strategies that support these priority areas are:
- Continuing education - to strengthen capability & capacity
- Raising awareness of the benefits and need for preventive care by healthcare professionals
- Creating opportunities for healthcare and non-healthcare professionals to work together for the holistic care of patients
Through workshops, dialogues, collaterals and training resources, HPB can help you integrate health promotion and disease prevention in your daily clinical practice.
If you share our vision of creating a nation of healthy people, and are keen to explore partnership opportunities with us, please drop us an email at kumaran_utravathy@hpb.gov.sg. We look forward to a successful partnership with you.
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