# List of Medical Social Services Units under Social Welfare Department

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- ID: ` hk-swd-rm-list-of-mssu `
- Publisher: [Social Welfare Department](/publishers/d545faf5-0f72-4606-9150-f11714c3e73d/) · [Markdown](/publishers/d545faf5-0f72-4606-9150-f11714c3e73d/index.md)
- Categories: [Community and Social Welfare](/categories/social-welfare/) · [Markdown](/categories/social-welfare/index.md)
- Tags: Not stated
- Resources: 1
- Updated: 2026-09-07T17:44:00.897889
- Update frequency (publisher metadata): As and when data is updated
- Harvest started: 2026-10-21T22:30:56.999Z
- Licence: Not stated
- Source: [Official metadata record](<https://data.gov.hk/en-data/api/3/action/package_show?id=hk-swd-rm-list-of-mssu>)

Harvest started is the source harvest start associated with this record, not its precise retrieval time. Updated is an upstream metadata claim.

## Description

Medical social workers \(MSWs\) are stationed in public hospitals and some specialist out\-patient clinics to provide timely psycho\-social intervention to patients and their families and help them cope with or solve problems arising from illness, trauma or disability\. As a member of the clinical team, MSWs play an important role in linking up the medical and social services to facilitate patients' recovery and rehabilitation in the community\.

## Resources

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### [List of Medical Social Services Units under Social Welfare Department (CSDI Portal)](<https://portal.csdi.gov.hk/geoportal/?datasetId=swd_rcd_1629267205216_5161>)

- Resource ID: ` 736f7219-4f97-4ba5-813a-f03ba6620df3 `
- Format: API
- Language: en,zh-Hant
- Updated: 2026-09-07T17:44:00.905671
- API flag (publisher metadata): Y
- Original URL: ` https://portal.csdi.gov.hk/geoportal/?datasetId=swd_rcd_1629267205216_5161 `

Medical social workers \(MSWs\) are stationed in public hospitals and some specialist out\-patient clinics to provide timely psycho\-social intervention to patients and their families and help them cope with or solve problems arising from illness, trauma or disability\. As a member of the clinical team, MSWs play an important role in linking up the medical and social services to facilitate patients' recovery and rehabilitation in the community\.

## Document availability

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