Hong Kon's medical infrastructure consists of a mixed medical economy, with 12 private hospitals and more than 50 public hospitals. There are also Polyclinics that offer primary care services, including dentistry.

Medical schools

Hong Kong has two medical schools, one with the University of Hong Kong (the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine) and the other with the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Medical graduates obtain the MBChB or MBBS, based on the British model. There are also schools of nursing, both public and private, and training for professions allied to medicine, including a school dedicated to dentistry and pharmacy.

Hospitals

Hong Kong's 12 private hospitals have partnered with the United Kingdom for international healthcare accreditation. All 12 private hospitals are "Trent Hospitals", having been surveyed and accredited by the United Kingdome’s Trent Accreditation Scheme. The Hong Kong Academy of Medicine is an independent institution with the statutory power to organise, monitor, assess, and accredit all medical specialist training and oversee continuing medical education in Hong Kong. In addition, The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada has also accredited postgraduate medical education (1994-present) in Hong Kong and allowed these graduates from the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine to seek RCPSC Certification and practicing in Canada.

Government

The Department of Health, under the Food and Health Bureau, is the health adviser of the Hong Kong government and an executive arm in health legislation and policy. Its primary role is to safeguard the health of the community through promotive, preventive, curative, and rehabilitative services in Hong Kong. The primary function of the department includes child assessment service, immunization programs, dental service, forensic pathology service, registration of healthcare professionals, etc, through boards and councils (i.e. Medical Council of Hong Kong, Pharmacy and Poisons Board of Hong Kong) are independent statutory bodies established under the relevant ordinances that operate independently to discharge their statutory functions.

Indicators

Hong Kong is one of the healthiest places in the world. Because of its early health education, professional health services, and well-developed health care and medication system, Hongkongers enjoy a life expectancy of 84 for females and 78 for men, the second highest in the world, and 2.94 infant mortality rate, the fourth lowest in the world. Hong Kong has high standards of medical practice. It has contributed to the development of liver transplantation, being the first in the world to carry out adult-to-adult live donor liver transplants in 1993.