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Sunday, March 31, 1974
In recurrent expenditure itself, there is a net increase of
$41.2 million over the approved estimate for the 1972-73.
The 23 assisted institutions are subvented on the basis of three
types of grant
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the deficiency grant, the cost-per-bed, and the lump sum.
In the case of a deficiency grant, the subvention is designed to
meet the difference between a subvented institution's approved expenditure
for a programme of activities approved by the Government, and its income
from other sources.
The grant used to ensure that services, which the Government would
otherwise be providing, are in fact provided. The Financial Secretary is
represented on the boards of deficiency grant institutions, and they are
required to work to approved detailed budgets.
following:
Institutions subvented on the deficiency grant basis include the
Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital
Society for the Aid and Rehabilitation of Drug Addicts
Tung Wah Group of Hospitals
United Christian Hospital
The cost-per-bed and the lump sum are varieties of a discretionary
grant. These grants are designed to assist the institutions concerned to
meet the cost of specific types of medical services, or of hospital beds
which the Government considers on medical grounds should be brought into the
public sector to meet the needs of those unable to afford unsubsidised in-
patient treatment.
/In this way,