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Health care vouchers can be used for
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services provided by medical practitioners, Chinese medicine practitioners, dentists, chiropractors, registered nurses and enrolled nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, radiographers and medical laboratory technologists (the use of services provided by allied health professionals and laboratory test services is subject to the current referral arrangement) |
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preventive care and curative services |
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Health care vouchers cannot be used to
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purchase drugs at pharmacies or other medical items |
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pay for subsidised public healthcare services, including those publicly subsidised healthcare services purchased from the private sector (such as the primary healthcare services proposed to be purchased by the Hospital Authority from the private sector in Tin Shui Wai under a pilot scheme)
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Health care vouchers are valid within the three-year implementation period of the Elderly Health Care Voucher Pilot Scheme, and vouchers unused each year may be retained for use in the following year or the third year of the Elderly Health Care Voucher Pilot Scheme, but no advance of vouchers which are yet to be issued is allowed.
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In general voucher recipients need such services a few times a year, the Government therefore encourages them to use one voucher each time as far as possible, so that they can receive services several times a year and establish a long-term healthcare relationship with healthcare personnel for better health protection.
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The Government has no plan to impose a limit on the number of vouchers that can be used each time, but will further review the matter in the light of actual operation.
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