The Eighth Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University
(Previously: Shunde Hospital of Southern Medical University)

Highlights

Health care vouchers are issued and claimed through an electronic platform. Eligible elderly persons need not pre-register, collect or carry the vouchers.

Starting from 17 July 2025, elderly persons can visit in person the “Reception for Hong Kong Elderly Health Care Voucher” of One-Stop-Service Centre at the Main Outpatient Lobby, Block 1 of The Eighth Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University (“EAHSMU”), present a valid Hong Kong Identity Card or Certificate of Exemption issued by the Immigration Department of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to complete relevant procedure, identity verification and registration process, and wait for treatment at the corresponding clinic area after triage. Elderly persons can use vouchers to pay for the fees at the Cashier of One-Stop-Service Centre (Block 1, Level 1), Outpatient Payment Counter 1 (Block 1, Level 1), International Medical Centre Service Counter and Payment Counter (Block 1, Level 3, Zone A) after receiving outpatient healthcare services at the designated departments.

Elderly persons who have received services at the hospital before can make a reservation through the official WeChat service account: The Eighth Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University.

Elderly persons will need to provide consent to join Electronic Health System (“eHealth”) (if not already) before they could use vouchers outside Hong Kong.

The EAHSMU will make voucher claim for the elderly person. At the same time, the record of voucher usage in the elderly person’s account will also be updated. Upon completion of the process of making voucher claim, the EAHSMU will give a printed record of the voucher balance to the elderly person for retention. However, elderly persons cannot use vouchers to pay for the same episode of service with service fees being covered by national medical insurance.

Designated departments of EAHSMU at which the use of health care vouchers are allowed

Health care vouchers can be used for the outpatient services, including preventive care services as well as curative and rehabilitative services, provided by the following 15 outpatient departments of the EAHSMU:

Department of Internal Medicine
Department of Surgery
Department of Orthopedics
Department of Gynaecology
Department of Dentistry
Department of Chinese Medicine
Department of Health Management
Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Department of Ophthalmology
Department of Rehabilitation
Department of Clinical Psychology
Department of Dermatology and Venereology
Department of General Practice
Department of Accident and Emergency (A&E)
Department of Nutrition

Services applicable for the Elderly Health Care Voucher Pilot Reward Scheme

A three-year Elderly Health Care Voucher Pilot Reward Scheme (“Pilot Reward Scheme”) is rolled out under the Elderly Health Care Voucher Scheme on 13 November 2023. Through providing rewards, eligible Hong Kong elderly persons aged 65 or above are encouraged to use vouchers for receiving designated primary healthcare (“PHC”) services such as health assessment, chronic disease screening and management provided by private healthcare service providers. As long as an elderly person’s principal reason for visit to a healthcare service provider is to receive designated PHC services, the amount of vouchers used by the elderly person on that occasion can be accumulated for earning reward, which can be used for settling fees for designated PHC services in future.

Designated PHC services under the Pilot Reward Scheme are applicable to outpatient services on preventive and follow-up/monitoring of long term conditions provided by the above-mentioned 15 designated outpatient departments of the EAHSMU.

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