Table 26
Appendices
6
(Chapter 8: Health)
Hospital Beds and Selected Types of Registered Healthcare Professionals
Hospital beds
Ordinance definition(2)
OECD definition(3)
Doctors(4)
2010
2014
2015
Number
Rate()
Number Rate(1)
Number
Rate()#
35,522 5.0 28,324 4.0
37,322 28,901
5.1 4.0
38,287 5.2
29,191
4.0
12,620 1.8
13,417 1.8
13,726
1.9
Chinese medicine practitioners
Registered Chinese medicine
6,241
0.9
6,898
0.9
7,071
1.0
practitioners(5)
Chinese medicine practitioners with
66
§
64
§
55
§
limited registration(6)
Listed Chinese medicine
2,772
0.4
2,693
0.4
2,661
0.4
practitioners(7)
Dentists(4)
Nurses(8)
Midwives
Pharmacists
Chiropractors
2,179
0.3
2,343
0.3
2,382
0.3
40,011
5.7
48,047
6.6
50,461
6.9
4,595
0.7
4,669
0.6
4,462
0.6
1,954
0.3
2,390
0.3
2,504
0.3
132
§
192
§
202
§
Notes:
Figures are as at the end of the year.
(1) Figures refer to the rates per 1,000 population.
(2) Figures include all hospital beds in Hospital Authority hospitals, private hospitals, nursing homes and correctional institutions, which follow the coverage of the Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Maternity Homes Registration Ordinance.
(3) Figures include only hospital beds in Hospital Authority hospitals and private hospitals excluding accident and emergency observation beds, day beds and nursery beds, which follow the definition of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
(4) Figures refer to the doctors/dentists with full registration on the local and overseas lists.
(5) After full implementation of the Chinese Medicine Ordinance, all Chinese medicine practitioners (CMPs) should be registered before they can practise Chinese medicine in Hong Kong. Any person who wishes to be a registered CMP should have satisfactorily completed an approved undergraduate degree course of training in Chinese medicine practice, taken and passed the Licensing Examination.
(6) 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.
(7) 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 the Licensing Examination during the transitional arrangements.
(8) Figures refer to registered nurses and enrolled nurses.
# Provisional figures.
§ Less than 0.05.
Sources: Department of Health
(For enquiries, please call 2961 8582.)
Hospital Authority
(For enquiries, please call 2300 7458.)
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