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The Department of Family Medicine & Continuing Care (FMCC) seeks to bring in the strengths of family medicine in care co-ordination and patient-centredness into the hospital care environment. Its mission is as follows:
- To provide a family medicine consultative service
- To provide and develop systems of transition care between inpatient services and community services
- To promote co-ordinated management of patients with co-morbidities in the hospital
- To provide interface care between the hospital and primary care providers
- To provide progressive undergraduate and postgraduate medical education
- To conduct research in Family Medicine
The FMCC will effect the right siting of care using a strategy of promoting care co-ordination and patient-centredness.
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