a functional primary care system where a family physician serves as the coordinating hub for complex patient care ensuring that medicines and treatment regimens are properly reviewed over time will help ensure that complex care needs arising from chronic disease are catered for a good example of a community programme in korea today is the gwang myeong registration project which focuses on diabetes and hypertension management see box below this pilot project is run by the gyeonggi provincial government and involves collaboration between the ministry of health and welfare the korean centre for disease control gyeonggi provincial government gwang myeong metropolitan health centre provincial medical care institutions and pharmacies and the hypertensiondiabetes mellitus control centre