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During these visits, the team will also formulate a number of
long term programme plans in conjunction with Secretariat Branches and
the various departments involved. Two such plans will deal with "Law
and Order", and "Communication between Government and People".
"These programme plans will deal with matters of great public
concern, involving many government departments. They are designed to
co-ordinate our efforts and make the best use of the resources available
to us," the spokesman said.
"A major Annual Operating Plan, designed to ensure greater cost
effectiveness by relating the input of resources to the output of services,
will also be produced, probably in the field of Hong Kong's medical services.
"This will give us a model on which we can in future base other
plans, to be prepared by government officers. These plans provide a
useful means of monitoring the performance of our services to the public,
on an annual basis," he explained.
In addition, the team will be available to advise Secretariat
Branches and the Management Unit on progress made in the implementation of
Last year's recommendations and on the programme plans and personnel resource
plans now being drawn-up.
The spokesman said that two consultants from McKinsey and Co. Inc.,
London, Mr. Roger Holland and Mr. Mark Weedon, both of whom were in last year's
team, will arrive in Hong Kong in the first half of April. Dr. Alcon Copisarow,
who will be in overall charge of the study, will pay the first of a series
of periodic visits at the end of April.
These two follow-up visits by the McKinsey team, lasting six months
in all, will cost a total of $725,000.
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