The PEP was launched in 2010 as a tertiary-wide primary care service component across the Hong Kong Hospital Authority with the purpose of providing quality chronic disease management to enhance primary care services. In the first evaluation cycle, from 1 March 2010 to 30 September
2010, two non-governmental organizations (NGOs), highly experienced in providing community medical education services, were invited to participate in the programme. From August 2011 onwards, four NGOs were invited to deliver the PEP, offering full coverage of services across all district clusters in Hong Kong. A detailed description of the PEP setting, mode of education delivery and results from the first evaluation has been published previously [13]. The main
function of the PEP is to deliver sessions on disease-specific knowledge, self-management skills, self-efficacy and lifestyle modification to patients with T2DM. The present analysis
summarizes the second set of evaluation data derived from the quality-of-care evaluation of the PEP provided by four NGOs with subsidies. This analysis included patients who attended
at least one session of the PEP between 1 March 2010 and 30 June 2012.