these foreign workers typically come from far afield many from the philippines for instance various other forms of community support are provided some directly by the ministry of welfare and social services others by the health funds which have certain obligations under nhi institutional care is supervised by the ministry of health and provided by a mix of governmentrun institutions and facilities run by the health funds in particular under the previous government the ministry of health proposed a reform that included putting both institutional and domestic longterm care under the responsibility of the health funds and increased subsidies to households for example through widening the provision of inkind hours of domestic support making the health funds responsible for longterm care certainly has some potential benefits for instance it could enhance attention to preventive care