In November 1999, then-Minister for Health Lim Hng Kiang announced that Singapore's public healthcare institutions would be reorganized into two delivery networks, or clusters.

The stated core values of the National health care group are that it's "people-centric, ethical, responsible, and has empathy toward the community and its members".

[7][8] Founded in 1928, the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) is a 2000-bed hospital located at the 23-hectare campus of Buangkok Green Medical Park in the northeast of Singapore.

IMH offers a multidisciplinary and comprehensive range of psychiatric, rehabilitative and counselling services in both hospital and community-based settings to meet the needs of three groups of people – children and adolescents, adults, and the elderly.

They provide treatment for acute medical conditions, management of chronic diseases, women and child health services and dental care, health promotion, early and accurate diagnosis, and disease management through physician led team-based care as well as enhancing the capability of Family Medicine through research and teaching.

The National Skin Centre (NSC) is an outpatient specialist dermatology center located next to Tan Tock Seng Hospital as part of the Healthcity Novena complex.

Services are offered at both static and mobile centres, including general X-ray, mammography, ultrasound, bone mineral densitometry, and home phlebotomy.