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Table 27
(Chapter 8: Health)
Hospital Beds and Selected Types of Registered Healthcare Professionals
2006
2007#
Number
Rate(1)
Number
Rate(1)
Hospital beds
34 532
5.0
34 932
5.0
Doctors(2)
11 739
1.7
11 961
1.7
Chinese medicine practitioners
Registered Chinese medicine
5 268
0.8
5 540
0.8
practitioners(3)
Chinese medicine practitioners with
limited registration(4)
68
t
79
+
Listed Chinese medicine practitioners(5)
2 897
0.4
2 847
0.4
Dentists(2)
1 976
0.3
2 025
0.3
Pharmacists
1 649
0.2
1 722
0.2
Nurses(6)
36 444
5.3
36 965
5.3
Midwives
4 648
0.7
4 693
0.7
Chiropractors
90
t
97
+
Notes: Figures are as at end of the year.
(1) Number of beds/healthcare professionals per 1 000 population. (2) Figures refer to the doctors/dentists with full registration on the local and overseas lists. (3) After full implementation of the Chinese Medicine Ordinance (Cap. 549), all Chinese medicine practitioners (CMPs) should be registered before they can practise Chinese medicine in Hong Kong. Any person who wishes to be registered CMP should have satisfactorily completed an approved undergraduate degree course of training in Chinese medicine practice, take and pass the Licensing Examination.
(4) CMPs with limited registration are allowed to perform clinical teaching and research in Chinese medicine in the specified educational and scientific research institutions. The registration period of CMPs with limited registration should not exceed one year and they cannot engage in private practice with patients.
(5)
Listed CMPS can practise lawfully in Hong Kong under the transitional arrangements for registration of CMPs until a date to be announced by the Secretary for Food and Health in the Gazette. Listed CMPs may become registered CMPs through direct registration, registration assessment or licensing examination during the transitional arrangements.
(6) Figures refer to registered nurses and enrolled nurses.
+
Less than 0.05.
Sources: Department of Health.
(Enquiry Telephone No.: 2961 8582)
Hospital Authority.
(Enquiry Telephone No.: 2300 6515)