Milestone

• Date: 28-08-2024
  On 6 September 2024, the coverage of the Elderly Health Care Voucher (EHCV) further extends to Nansha Division of The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University and Dongguan Tungwah Hospital, enabling eligible Hong Kong elderly persons to use EHCV to pay for the fee of outpatient healthcare services provided by designated departments of the above-mentioned medical institutions. For details, please click here to read the press release.
• Date: 05-08-2024
  On 14 August 2024, the coverage of the Elderly Health Care Voucher (EHCV) further extends to Shenzhen New Frontier United Family Hospital, Shenzhen C.K.J Stomatological Hospital and Dental Bauhinia Specialty Service Center (Shenzhen)/Dental Bauhinia General Care Center (Shenzhen) under the EHCV Greater Bay Area Pilot Scheme, enabling eligible Hong Kong elderly persons to use EHCV to pay for the fee of outpatient healthcare services provided by the above-mentioned medical institutions. For details, please click here to read the press release.
• Date: 12-07-2024
  On 18 July 2024, the coverage of the Elderly Health Care Voucher (EHCV) extends to Zhongshan Chen Xinghai Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine under the EHCV Greater Bay Area Pilot Scheme, enabling eligible Hong Kong elderly persons to use EHCV to pay for the fee of outpatient healthcare services provided by designated clinics and departments of the Hospital. For details, please click here to read the press release.
• Date: 27-06-2024
  On 28 June 2024, the coverage of the Elderly Health Care Voucher (EHCV) extends to The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou under the EHCV Greater Bay Area Pilot Scheme, enabling eligible Hong Kong elderly persons to use EHCV to pay for the fee of outpatient healthcare services provided by designated clinics and departments of the Hospital. For details, please click here to read the press release.
• Date: 19-02-2024
  On 19 February 2024, the Government announced that seven medical institutions in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) have been included in the Elderly Health Care Voucher GBA Pilot Scheme (Pilot Scheme). The pilot medical institutions are expected to gradually launch the relevant arrangements under the Pilot Scheme starting from the third quarter of 2024 and enable eligible Hong Kong elderly persons to use elderly health care vouchers to pay for services received. For details, please click here to read the press release.
• Date: 09-11-2023
  On 13 November 2023, a three-year “Elderly Health Care Voucher Pilot Reward Scheme” will be rolled out under the Elderly Health Care Voucher Scheme. Eligible Hong Kong elderly persons accumulating voucher spending of at least $1,000 on designated primary healthcare services within the same year will be allotted $500 reward to their voucher accounts for using towards disease prevention and health management services. For details, please click here to read the press release.
• Date: 24-07-2023
  The Elderly Health Care Voucher Scheme is further enhanced to allow the shared use of health care vouchers between spouses and the use of electronic consent (e-consent). With effect from 28 July 2023, two elderly persons in spousal relationship, both aged 65 or above and eligible to use vouchers, can share use their vouchers after pairing up their voucher accounts upon mutual consent. After pairing up their accounts, either party can, upon exhaustion of his/her voucher account balance, use the voucher balance in his/her spouse’s account. System improvement measures, including the introduction of e-consent to replace the previous paper-based consent, will also be implemented on the same date. For details, please click here to read the press release.
• Date: 27-04-2023
  The coverage of the Elderly Health Care Voucher Scheme extends to include four categories of healthcare profession under the Accredited Registers Scheme for Healthcare Professions. Apart from the primary healthcare services provided by medical practitioners, Chinese medicine practitioners, dentists, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, radiographers, medical laboratory technologists, chiropractors and optometrists with Part I registration, eligible elderly persons will also be able to make use of vouchers to pay for the primary healthcare services provided by audiologists, dietitians, clinical psychologists and speech therapists enrolled in the Elderly Health Care Voucher Scheme with effect from 28.4.2023. For details, please click here to read the press release.
• Date: 31-03-2023
  The scheme for the use of Elderly Health Care Voucher at the University of Hong Kong – Shenzhen Hospital will be extended to cover Huawei Li Zhi Yuan Community Health Service Center set up by the hospital. Eligible Hong Kong elderly persons will be able to use the Elderly Health Care Voucher to pay for the fees of outpatient healthcare services at the Health Service Center with effect from 17 April 2023. For details, please click here to read the press release.
• Date: 05-06-2019
  An additional $1,000 worth of vouchers will be provided, on a one-off basis, to each eligible elder on 26 June 2019. The accumulation limit of the vouchers will also be increased to $8,000 on the same day as a regular measure.
  
  Besides, several other enhancement measures as below will also take effect on the same day: (a) setting a cap of $2,000 every two years on the voucher amount that can be spent by each eligible elder on optometry services; (b) improving the enquiry system for checking voucher balances; and (c) regularising the Pilot Scheme at the University of Hong Kong – Shenzhen Hospital.
  
  For details, please refer to the press release on the enhancement measures. For the measure about the cap on the voucher amount that can be spent on optometry services, please click here.
• Date: 28-05-2018
  An additional $1,000 worth of vouchers will be provided, on a one-off basis, to each eligible elder on 8 June 2018. The accumulation limit of the vouchers will also be increased to $5,000 on the same day as a regular measure. Please click here to read the press release.
• Date: 18-04-2018
  Key statistics on the Elderly Health Care Voucher Scheme have been posted on this website for public information. Please click here for details.
• Date: 15-06-2017
  The present eligibility age for the Scheme will be lowered from 70 to 65 with effect from 1 July 2017. Elders aged 65 to 69 in 2017 and holding a valid Hong Kong Identity Card or Certificate of Exemption issued by the Immigration Department can make use of the vouchers starting from 1 July 2017 to settle the fees of primary care services provided by participating healthcare service providers. Please click here to read the press release.
• Date: 06-10-2015
  To provide one more service point for Hong Kong elders to use health care vouchers and facilitate those who reside in the Mainland to seek medical treatment in Shenzhen, the HKSARG has launched the Pilot Scheme at the HKU-SZ Hospital. Eligible Hong Kong elders can use health care vouchers to pay for the fees of outpatient services provided by designated clinics/departments of the HKU-SZ Hospital. For details, please refer to "The Scheme at the University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen Hospital".
• Date: 01-07-2014
  To give elders greater flexibility in using the vouchers and to reduce the administrative burden on enrolled healthcare service providers, the face value of each voucher has been lowered from $50 to $1 with effect from 1 July 2014.
• Date: 06-06-2014
  The annual voucher amount has been doubled to $2,000 for each eligible elder. The additional voucher amount of $1,000 for the year 2014 will be released to elders' eHealth Accounts starting from 7 June 2014. The financial ceiling on unspent vouchers will also be adjusted to $4,000. Please click here to read the Press Release.
• Date: 01-01-2013
  Health Care Voucher amount has been increased to $1,000 per year
• Date: 07-12-2012
  As approved in Legislative Council's Finance Committee Meeting, Health Care Voucher Scheme will be converted from pilot project into a recurrent support programme for the elderly
• Date: 01-01-2012
  Health Care Voucher Scheme has been extended until 2014
• Date: 18-12-2008
  Press Releases
  Service providers are encouraged to join Health Care Voucher Scheme
• Date: 25-8-2008
  The Department of Health arranged briefing sessions targeted at private sector healthcare service providers for introducing the administrative arrangements and other salient issues of the Elderly Health Care Voucher Pilot Scheme.
• Date: 14-4-2008
  The Food and Health Bureau briefed the Panel on Health Services of the Legislative Council regarding the Elderly Health Care Voucher Pilot Scheme and collects their feedback on 14 April, 2008.
• Date: 6-3-2008
  Permanent Secretary for Food and Health (Health) Ms Sandra LEE briefed the Elderly Commission regarding the Elderly Health Care Voucher Pilot Scheme and collected their feedback on 6 March, 2008.