Medical Tourism Hong Kong

Hong Kong has 12 private hospitals and more than 50 public hospitals. A wide range of health care services are offered. All 12 of Hong Kong's private hospitals have been surveyed and accredited by the UK's Trent Accreditation Scheme since early 2001. This has been a major factor in the ascent of standards in Hong Kong's private hospitals. The Trent scheme works closely with the hospitals it assesses to generate standards appropriate to the locality (with respect to culture, geography, public health, primary care interfaces etc.), and always uses combinations of UK-sourced and Hong Kong-sourced surveyors. Some of Hong Kong's private hospitals have now gone on to obtain dual international accreditation, with both Trent and JCI (and have therefore attained a standard surpassing some of the best hospitals in Thailand and Singapore). Others are looking towards dual international accreditation with Trent and the Australian group. Hong Kong public hospitals have yet to commit to external accreditation

Hong Kong has been confirmed as the Asian hub for cancer treatment as well as for medical tourism with the recent opening of the world's first non-governmental Chinese-Western Oncology Rehabilitation Center. This center has been established by a civil organization and is staffed with specialists from China. Providing free medical services to cancer patients, it is hoped that the center's success will lead the way for a trend in combining the best of both the Chinese and Western medical services.