• Jennifer Sumner and Yee Wei Lim.
• Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore. jenny.sumner@york.ac.uk.
• J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Mar 1; 36 (3): 782-785.

AbstractSingapore, like many countries, is attempting to meet the growing healthcare needs of an ageing population with a high burden of chronic diseases. Despite efforts to integrate and increase healthcare capacity, longstanding challenges remain difficult to overcome. Recently, policymakers have considered a new approach to building chronic and eldercare capacity-the Integrated General Hospital (IGH). The development of the IGH model is motivated by a combination of factors: the limit to which the primary care system can manage patients with increasingly complex chronic diseases, a longstanding preference of patients for hospital-based specialty services and patients experiencing fragmented care delivery. The IGH model links hospital care teams and community-based care providers, to facilitate the management of patients throughout the care continuum in a single integrated site. It is hoped that this hospital-led model for chronic care can meet patients' needs and preferences and reduce fragmentation of care.

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