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Sir, in your address on 7 October you announced
that a decision had been taken in principle to establish a
Hospital Authority, following the recommendations made by
the Australian consultants. This is perhaps the most
important decision on the organisaton of Hong Kong's
medical services to be taken for many years, and will have
far-reaching effects on the whole public hospital system.
Dr. Lam made the very valid point that the success of the
new arrangments will depend to a large extent on the
adequacy of the financial provision made by the Government
and also on the quality of the members appointed to the
Authority and to its regional committees. I have on
several occasions given an undertaking that the Government
remains fully committed to the provision of a heavily
subsidised public hospital service for the foreseeable
future. Moreover there will be no slowing-up of our
ambitious programme of new hospitals and extensions to
existing hospitals during the next few years. So far as
the membership of the Authority and its regional
committees is concerned, I fully agree with Dr. Lam that S..
we need to select people who can look objectively at the
factors involved and who will understand the present
difficulties.
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Dr. Chiu welcomed the proposal that the
Provisional Hospital Authority should be entrusted with
the task of formulating a set of common terms of service
for the staff of the fu
Authority. It is envisaged that staff