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The document summarizes new initiatives by the Singapore government to increase spending on healthcare by 34% to $3.7 billion in response to the economic downturn. This includes expanding Medisave withdrawal limits to reduce patients' medical bills, extending Medisave coverage to mental health conditions, and tweaking government subsidies to incentivize lower-cost healthcare providers. The initiatives also involve building new healthcare infrastructure and creating over 4,500 new healthcare jobs over two years to boost the sector.
The document summarizes new initiatives by the Singapore government to increase spending on healthcare by 34% to $3.7 billion in response to the economic downturn. This includes expanding Medisave withdrawal limits to reduce patients' medical bills, extending Medisave coverage to mental health conditions, and tweaking government subsidies to incentivize lower-cost healthcare providers. The initiatives also involve building new healthcare infrastructure and creating over 4,500 new healthcare jobs over two years to boost the sector.
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The document summarizes new initiatives by the Singapore government to increase spending on healthcare by 34% to $3.7 billion in response to the economic downturn. This includes expanding Medisave withdrawal limits to reduce patients' medical bills, extending Medisave coverage to mental health conditions, and tweaking government subsidies to incentivize lower-cost healthcare providers. The initiatives also involve building new healthcare infrastructure and creating over 4,500 new healthcare jobs over two years to boost the sector.
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the economic tsunami, there will be a substantial increase in the healthcare budget this year for government subvention to restructured hospitals and healthcare institutions and for helping the population cope with their healthcare bills. New Initiatives in Healthcare
More liberal New &
use of MSV & expanded strengthening infrastructure of Medifund 34% increase in health budget to $3.7b. Increase in patient subsidies to $2.2b Tweaking govt More jobs & subvention to training reward low-cost awards providers Liberalisation of Medisave • By June 09, Medisave withdrawal limits for surgical procedures will be expanded
• Surgeries categorised into 21 tables in ascending complexity
• Current withdrawal limits: Between $150 for Table 1A to $5,000 for
Table 7C. New withdrawal limits: Between $250 for Table 1A to $7,550 for Table 7C
• By Oct 09, Medisave will be further liberalised to
benefit the mentally ill patients, starting with major conditions of depression and schizophrenia
• Framework will be put in place to cover treatment by
psychiatrists and GPs Tweaking Govt Subvention to Ensure Competitiveness To inform the public on the cost of hospitalisation and to allow them “shop around”, MOH publishes monthly hospital bill size statistics on its website. The effort has, for example, led to greater price competition among clinics performing lasik operation. However, for most other procedures, patients tend to go for higher-cost providers even when competent lower-cost providers are available.
d Tweaking Govt Subvention to Ensure Competitiveness
• Thus, to allow greater competition
and to help patients save, government subvention will be tweaked to incentivise healthcare providers to deliver better outcomes at lower cost
• We hope a lasik-like price fall can
occur with greater bill transparency, competition amongst providers and informed choices by consumers. New and expanded infrastructure
• New infrastructure to meet increased patient loads and new needs
Primary Hospitals Teaching & National Step-
Care Research Specialty Down Care Centers • More • Increase interim • Duke-NUS • 2nd Heart and • New Ren-Ci polyclinics beds and clinical Graduate Cancer Centres at Hospital space Medical NUH • New models of • Community School primary care • Khoo Teck Puat • Redevelop Nat. Hospital sites (eg. Jurong Hospital (KTPH) • SGH Heart Centre next to KTPH Med. Centre) by 2010 Pathology (NHC) and JGH Building • Jurong General • Redevelop Comm. Hospital (JGH) by Diseases Centre 2015 (CDC) • Future hospital • Nat. Addict. Mgt sites being Centre (NAMC) reserved More jobs and training awards RIGHT NUMBER RIGHT SKILL
•4,500 more jobs over •Help retrenched
the next two years Singaporeans take up a career in healthcare •50% for nurses •At least 250 • 25% for doctors and mid-career conversion allied health opportunities
•Subsidised training costs
•25% for administrative and monthly allowance and ancillary staff •Increase in number of scholarships and bursaries for allied health students to 250
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