Primary Care Survey 2005

1 March 2006

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The Primary Care Survey 2005 (PCS 2005) is the fourth in its series, with the earlier three surveys carried out in 1988, 1993 and 2001 respectively.

Download the Primary Care Survey 2005 report. [PDF, 976KB]

PCS 2005 was commissioned by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the College of Family Physicians and the Singapore Medical Association. An advisory committee was appointed comprising of representatives from the College of Family Physicians, the Singapore Medical Association, the polyclinic clusters as well as private GPs from solo & group practices.

The objectives of PCS 2005 are:

To gather the morbidity and biographic profile of patients seeking primary care in the private and the public healthcare institutions;
To determine the private sector and public sector market shares in primary care provision;
To obtain information on GPs work practices such as workload, working hours, etc; and
To identify issues in primary care in order to aid policy planning & directions in bringing about more holistic management of patients.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) commissioned Market Probe-Precision Research Pte Ltd to conduct the survey. To facilitate fieldwork, the identities of responding clinics were only known to Market Probe-Precision Research. Patient data collected for this survey was totally non-identifiable. The data collected was reported at an aggregate level for policy analysis.