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Ref. UGC/GEN/65/73 II
UNIVERSITY & POLYTECHNIC GRANTS COMMITTEE
MSC.20
Report of the Medical Sub-committee February 1974
Introduction and background
1. In March 1973 the Medical Development Advisory Committee was appointed by the Government to keep under continuous review and to advise on the development of medical and health services in Hong Kong, with a special remit calling for advice on improve- ment and expansion for the next ten years. The special remit was made because the programmes stemming from the 1964 White Paper for the Medical and Health Services were coming to an end with their targets largely achieved, and further examination and review was therefore necessary.
2. The Medical Development Advisory Committee issued its first Report on 30 July 1973 and this was laid in Legislative Council and published on 30 October 1973. The Report was given "Green Paper" treatment but a White Paper has not yet been issued. It is a wide-ranging and comprehensive report but of its 19 main recommendations only two are of concern in this present UPGC Report. These are:
(a) "that consideration be given as to how a requirement for additional doctors in the public and private sectors. of about 100 a year by 1982-83 is to be met" (paragraphs 66 and 67): and
(b) "that plans should be made for a dental school starting with a pre-clinical annual intake of at least 40 and with an annual output of about 60 dentists from 1980 onwards" (paragraphs 103 to 105).
3. His Excellency the Governor wrote to the Chairman UPGC on 19 October 1973 referring to the Medical Development Advisory Committee Report and asking for the advice of the UPGC as to "the best method of providing the additional doctors and dentists recommended, with an estimate of the comparative costs of alternative methods". The UPGC was at the time meeting in Hong Kong and agreed to set up a Medical Sub-committee using the words quoted above as its terms of reference.
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G. F. 323
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