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Over the years, the Club's Charities Trust has worked closely with the Government and local medical institutions to expand the breadth and depth of its support to healthcare services in Hong Kong. This includes a HK$500 million donation to establish the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) in response to the SARS outbreak of 2003.

The work of the CHP in monitoring and preventing epidemics in Hong Kong has recently been further strengthened with the development and implementation of a Communicable Disease Information System (CDIS), funded with support from the Trust.  

In the light of rapid social development, Hong Kong needs to strengthen its monitoring of communicable diseases from different channels and be able to enforce instantaneous, inclusive and interactive disease control. The CDIS is an electronic platform which enables data and information exchanges between the public and private healthcare sectors and community partners, including general outpatient clinics, private medical practitioners, Chinese medicine practitioners, child care centres, kindergartens and residential care homes for the elderly. To ensure accuracy of the information, the CDIS performs data validation and analysis.

The new system will help enhance Hong Kong’s communicable disease surveillance, outbreak management and emergency responses, as well as its ability to plan and evaluate the prevention and control of communicable diseases, so that the impact of any disease outbreak on the community can be minimised.

The Trust has played a prominent role in supporting local medical development, donating more than HK$3.1 billion in this area in the past decade. Notable projects include the establishment of a teaching hospital at the Chinese University of Hong Kong to provide high-quality and affordable medical services for sandwich-class patients; the Hong Kong Jockey Club Innovative Learning Centre for Medicine to help position the city as a regional hub of excellence in simulation based-training; and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Disaster Preparedness and Response Institute.