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to require
in a district hospital or infirmary. Thus a patient not considered
highly specialised treatment would not normally be
referred to a regional hospital; one whose treatment requires a stay
in an acute hospital bed would be transferred to a non-acute bed for
convalescence.
6.4
Such, however, is the distribution of hospital beds
that to secure these results it is necessary first to improve the
administrative and organisational integration between hospitals and
clinics in the Government and aided sectors than exists at the present
time.
6.5
Initially it is proposed that the new integrated
arrangements will apply only to third class general beds. All
Government hospitals will participate and it is proposed to invite
in addition the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, the United Christian
Hospital, the Buddhist Hospital and the Caritas Medical Centre to
take part from the outset. As experience of the scheme is gained,
consideration will be given to the inclusion of other assisted
hospitals.
It is proposed that these new arrangements should take
effect on 1st April 1975.
Accident Service
6.6
With the establishment of this integrated structure
it will be possible to undertake a detailed investigation of the
accident and casualty services.
Before the MDAC report was submitted,
advice had been received on a number of improvements to these
services. It may be that these services should be reorganised
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