To date, DH has accredited the registers of five healthcare professions, including speech therapists, audiologists, dietitians, educational psychologists and clinical psychologists. Five accredited healthcare professional organisations (the accredited organisations) are permitted to use the Accreditation Mark (as illustrated), and their members are permitted to use the title “[Profession] in Accredited Register” on their name cards for public recognition.

Benefits of choosing members of accredited registers to provide services:

• the accredited organisations have been assessed against a set of robust standards, and are committed to safeguarding public health, managing the register of their profession, and ensuring that members are professionally fit for practice; and
• members of the accredited organisations have met educational and training requirements as well as prescribed standards.

DH, relevant government departments and the Hospital Authority have included registration with the accredited organisations as one of the priority considerations in the recruitment for positions of the relevant healthcare professions. Also, the Government has extended the scope of the Elderly Health Care Voucher Scheme to cover primary healthcare services provided by four categories¹ of healthcare professionals registered under the AR Scheme.

Colleagues seeking services from the above healthcare professionals may search the list of accredited organisations via the AR Scheme website (https://www.ars.gov.hk) and look up the relevant registers.