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which Pok Oi and Yan Chai Hospitals might be examples.
is proposed that these new arrangements should take effect
on 1st April 1975.
Uniformi- 6.6 ty of charges
Changes in arran-
gements
for sub- vention
to Govern-
ment assisted
For a scheme of this kind to be acceptable it is
clear that patients should be subject to no financial
disadvantage in using beds in Government assisted hospitals.
At present the Government all-inclusive charge is $2 per
day for third class beds (with a system for the remission
of charges for those who cannot afford to pay). With the
exception of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, some of the
Government assisted hospitals expected to participate
charge considerably more for maintenance alone, and
additional fees for treatment. To ensure that this does
not operate as a disincentive to patients, it is proposed
that both the Government and Government-assisted hospitals
within the integrated arrangements should make uniform
charges for their third class beds.
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Standardising charges in this way will mean that
the income now derived from this source by certain of the
Government-assisted hospitals will be reduced; it will also
mean that the hospitals concerned would be unable to
hospitals augment their income by increasing their charges. The
issue will be of concern in the first instance only in
relation to the Buddhist Hospital, and the Caritas Medical
Centre, both of which are presently assisted by way of a cost
per bed subvention. With their participation in these
integrated arrangements it will be necessary to review the
manner in which they are to be subvented. The MDAC
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proposed this might be achieved by applying the deficiency
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