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Health

Medifund Applications and Grants Disbursed, Annual

Data from Apr 2006 to Mar 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:57 SGT

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Number of Medifund Applications Approved, Grants Disbursed to Institutions.

In the past years, applications for all Intermediate and Long Term Care (ILTC) services were classified together as a category. For FY12, Medifund applications for ILTC services were further differentiated into three types of services - i) Non-Residential Services (by attendances), ii) Intermediate Term Residential Services (by admissions), iii) Long Term Residential Services (by bed months) - to better reflect the different nature of the services. The number of ILTC Medifund and Medifund Silver applications in FY12 is a summation of these services in their respective units. Hence FY12 ILTC figures onwards are not comparable with preceding years.

Chart (Grants Disbursed)

Data explorer

MedifundApplicationsandGrantsDisbursedAnnual.csv (16 rows, 342 B)

Financial year Financial Year (YYYY)	Applications approved Numeric	Grants disbursed Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2006	301000	39.6
2007	357000	49.5
2008	370000	59
2009	410000	64.3
2010	481000	78.7
2011	518000	90.8
2012	587000	101.9
2013	766000	129.8
2014	1006000	159.3
2015	1097000	155.2

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Financial year	financial_year	Financial Year (YYYY)	-	-
Applications approved	applications_approved	Numeric	No. of Applications	Number of Medifund Applications Approved, rounded off to the nearest thousand
Grants disbursed	grants_disbursed	Numeric	$ million	Grants Disbursed to Institutions in millions of dollars

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_bcde2c5ad440e32bdc116732a26d9c33"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Ministry of Health. (2016). Medifund Applications and Grants Disbursed, Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved March 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_bcde2c5ad440e32bdc116732a26d9c33/view

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Created on

07 Jul 2016

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Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

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MOH (Ministry of Health)