Symposium Theme: Translating Health Research into Policy for Health of the Population ; Parallel Session 3: Delivery of Health Services: no. S12 ; This journal suppl. entitled: Health Research Symposium 2014 - Commissioned Research on Mental Health Policy and Services: Research Dissemination Reports ; To improve the quality of care of patients with chronic diseases in primary care, the Hong Kong Hospital Authority introduced a series of chronic disease management and public-private partnership programmes: Risk Factor Assessment and Management Programme and Patient Empowerment Programme for patients with diabetes mellitus and hypertension, Nurse and Allied Health Clinics programme, and Haemodialysis – Public Private Partnership Programme. Dr Chin and colleagues aimed to evaluate and enhance the quality of care of these programmes to assure that best practices and outcomes can be achieved. Dr Chin found that all … ; published_or_final_version