1 -
Staff cost proportion of medical doctors in HA
Following is a question by the Hon Howard Young and a written reply by the Secretary for Health and Welfare, Mrs Katherine Fok, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Question:
Will the Government inform this Council of:
(a)
(b)
the proportion of staff costs in respect of all medical doctors in the Hospital Authority (HA), including those remaining on civil service terms, to the total expenditure of the HA in the current and previous two financial years; and
the proportion of staff costs in respect of medical doctors in the general surgical departments of the hospitals under the management of the HA to the total financial provision allocated to these departments in the current and previous two financial years?
Reply:
The proportion of staff cost in respect of all medical doctors to the total expenditure of the Hospital Authority are 20.5% in 1993/94, 21.4% in 1994/95 and 21.9% in 1995/96. Although the Authority has decentralised financial planning and budgetary management, not all public hospitals have apportioned staff costs to the level of individual clinical departments or operating units. The requested information about medical staff cost in the general surgical departments of public hospitals compared with their total financial provision is thus not available.
End