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Reply:
The qualifications needed to be able to be registered as health workers employed by care and attention homes are set out in the Residential Care Homes (Elderly Persons) Regulation. A person has to complete a course of training approved in writing by the Director of Social Welfare or has to satisfy the Director that, by reason of his or her education, training, professional experience and skill in health work, he or she is a suitable person to be registered as a health worker.
The Director is empowered to cancel the registration of a person if the registration was obtained by fraudulent means or if the person ceases to be found suitable to be registered. In view of the authority vested in the Director to register, refuse to register and cancel registration, the Director is also responsible for monitoring the quality of service provided by health workers. Medical inspectors appointed under the Residential Care Homes (Elderly Persons) Ordinance have been assigned this monitoring function. They use their professional knowledge to advise the Director whether a residential care home is being operated and managed satisfactorily. Since there are sufficient safeguards in the Residential Care Homes (Elderly Persons) Ordinance and Regulation to ensure the appropriate monitoring of the quality of services provided by health workers, the establishment of an additional monitoring body would serve no useful purpose.
End/Wednesday, May 17, 1995
Disclosure of personal data of LegCo members' assistants
Following is a question by the Hon Henry Tang Ying-yen and a written reply by the Chief Secretary, Mrs Anson Chan, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Question:
Will the Government inform this Council whether the Government, in arriving at its decision to require Legislative Council Members to disclose the names, identity card numbers and wages of their assistants, has taken into consideration Article 14 of the Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance concerning the protection of privacy, family, home, correspondence, honour and reputation?