Overview

• The Ministry of Health, Agency for Integrated Care and GovTech launched myACP on July 19 at Heartbeat@Bedok, debuting a free digital advance care planning tool.
• Healthy Singaporeans aged 21 and above can now complete plans entirely online, specifying medical treatments, daily care needs and proxy decision-makers.
• More than 77,000 advance care plans have been completed through the platform, representing a 40 percent rise over last year’s total.
• Individuals with serious illnesses like cancer or heart failure must continue to complete ACP sessions in person with their healthcare team or a certified facilitator.
• The launch advances the 2023 National Strategy for Palliative Care, which expanded home care capacity to 3,000 places, inpatient hospice beds to 300 and reduced hospital deaths to 59.8 percent.