The Hospital Authority's Community Based Nursing Service provides post-discharge rehabilitative nursing care and treatment for the sick, the chronically ill, post-natal cases, the elderly, the disabled, and the mentally ill in the patients' homes through a network of community nursing service centres and community psychiatric nursing service offices. During the year, 64 152 patients were served and 792 822 home visits were made.

    Specialised community nursing services in the areas of hospice, respiratory, renal, and wound care have been developed to support post-discharged patients in the community. In collaboration with community geriatric assessment teams, community nurses provide professional nursing care for the elderly in private aged homes.