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hospital places are planned by 1983. A longer term target is to
provide one day hospital place for every 1000 population aged 65
and over.
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The Government believes that expansion of the general
community nursing service offers the greatest scope for improving
health services for the elderly, This scheme is designed to cover
basic nursing care of geriatric patients and the physically and
mentally handicapped, and post-hospitalisation medical and surgical
nursing care for discharged patients of all ages. On the advice
of the Medical Development Advisory Committee, the current pilot
community nursing scheme operated by voluntary agencies will be
replaced in April 1979 by a fully integrated scheme within the
overall medical and health services of Hong Kong. The Government
will participate directly in the scheme by establishing community
nursing services based on its regional hospitals, extending them to
the new towns as Sha Tin and Tuen Mun Hospitals come into operatica.
The expansion will be phased in over the next five years with a target
training figure of 350 additional nurses (in the ratio of 1
Registered Nurse to 4 Enrolled Nurses). With a total force of 380
nurses, it should be possible to provide a reasonable spread other
than in the more remote areas of the New Territories, for the elderly
as well as for the other categories that will be served by the
scheme. The Government will review this target and the scope of
the service in the light of experience and the resources available.
To facilitate expansion of the existing services provided by the
voluntary sector, an improved basis for subventing the agencies
involved is being considered.
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