irst introduced by HA in April last year, the Personalised Care Programme for severe mental illness patients was piloted in Yuen Long, Kwai Tsing, and Kwun Tong for 4,600 patients. In this personalised programme, each patient has a designated case manager who helps them reintegrate into the community since discharged from hospital.
Establishing a close service relationship throughout the recovery journey, the case manager tailor make a care plan for patient. Besides improving both the mental condition and the patient's relationship with family, case managers also reported great satisfaction from their job.
The programme has been extended to five more districts since
April 2011, namely Hong Kong East, Sham Shui Po, Sha Tin, Tuen Mun
and Wan Chai. ![](images/has_icon.gif)
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