Dr Derek Tse Wan Lung

Dr Derek Tse is Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Singhealth Polyclinics(SHP). He is a Family Physician by training and has attained the professional grade of senior consultant. He also holds the academic appointment of Clinical Assistant Professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School.

Prior to his current leadership appointment, he held many key leadership appointments, including the most recent as Director, Regional Clinical Services, East, following the re-organisation of SHP to align the three regions of SingHealth’s Regional Health System in January 2020.

Dr Tse was first appointed to the role of Director, Clinical Services, SHP in April 2019 providing oversight for the entire spectrum of clinical services in SHP. Prior to this, he was the assistant Director, Clinical Integration and Clinical Support, where he has oversight in care transitions, dental as well as allied health services.

Dr Tse built a Dental Management team to optimize management of dental services and strategize for future development, and provided strategic directions for allied health services to grow in support of clinical services. He strongly believes in the importance of inter-sectorial collaboration in healthcare to smoothen care transition and has anchored an extensive effort to establish referral and discharge criteria between SHP and hospitals. He has also initiated the link-up with social agencies in the community to facilitate health and social care integration, and set up the Community Health Centres in the rollout of the primary care masterplan version 1 to support GPs with nursing and allied health services. His academic profile includes preceptorship for the Continuity Clinic Module of Duke-NUS Family Medicine Clerkship and membership at the Centralized Institutional Review Board. He is currently the Director (Primary Care) in FM ACP since 2017. 

• Fellow, Academy of Medicine, 2015 
• Fellow, College of Family Physicians Singapore (FCFPS), 2004 
• Master of Medicine (Family Medicine), NUS 2001 
• Post Graduate Diploma (Family Practice) Dermatology, NUS 2000 
• MBBS (Australia), 1995 

• Director (Primary Care), ACP FM (2017 to Present)
• Advisor, FY2022 SHP Strategic Planning Workstream 2 – Right Siting of Care (2021)
• Clinical Lead, SingHealth Polyclinics Disease Outbreak Taskforce (2020 to Present)
• Co-lead, NDCS Service Transformation Taskforces (2016 to Present)
• Co-lead, Future Outpatient Journey Taskforce (SingHealth) (2018 to Present)
• Member, MOH Colorectal Screening Steering Committee (2011 to Present)
• Programme Lead, Eastern CHC Project (2011 to Present)
• Member, Advisor for OHT and Dietician Workgroups, SingHealth AHP Career Development Path Project Steering Committee (2013 to Present)
• Member, EHA Primary Care Advisory Council (2014 to Present)
• Member, National Diabetic Foot Workgroup (2018 to Present)

• Service Excellence Awards (Silver) 2007, 2009 
• HMDP Award (Community Child Health) Sydney (2007) 
• YOU SHINE Award (team) for Availability and Accessibility to Medications Workgroup May 15 
• YOU SHINE Award (team) for Laboratory Service Taskforce Oct15 
• Merit Award for Most Innovative Project/Policy, PS21 ExCEL Award (team) for Appointment Access Taskforce (2015) 
• NHG Team Recognition Award (2018) 
• Singapore Health Quality Service Awards – Hero Award (2021) 
• National Day Award – Public Administration Medal (Bronze) (2021) 

• Sub-editor, MOH CPG Autism Spectrum Disorder in Pre-school Children Mar 2010 

• Tse D. Book Review: Practical Obstetrics and Gynaecology Handbook for the General Practitioner by Tan TC, Tan KT and Tay EH Singapore Med J 2007:48(6):590