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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 14

1

GOVERNMENT COMMITTED TO IMPROVING MEDICAL,

HEALTH SERVICES: GOVERNOR

THE PROVISION

HONG

KONG,

THE

THE GOVERNMENT IS FIRMLY COMMITTED TO IMPROVING

MEDICAL AND

SERVICES IN OF

HEALTH AND STANDARD GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID THIS (TUESDAY) EVENING.

MEAN THAT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE HOSPITAL AUTHORITY DID NOT

RESPONSIBILITY FOR THESE THE GOVERNMENT WAS DIVESTING ITSELF OF ITS SERVICES, SIR DAVID SAID. "ON THE CONTRARY, THE NEW ARRANGEMENTS

THESE

TO RESPONSIBILITIES

BE EXERCISED MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR EFFECTIVELY."

WILL MORE

THE BRITISH MEDICAL THE GOVERNMENT'S

SPEAKING AT THE ANNUAL DINNER OF ASSOCIATION (HONG KONG BRANCH), SIR DAVID EXPLAINED DECISION TO SET UP THE HOSPITAL AUTHORITY.

ΤΟ ENSURE THAT PUBLIC HE SAID THE AIM OF THE GOVERNMENT WAS

ΤΟ

OF

WERE THE

MEDICAL

USED PROVISION

SERVICES FUNDS ALLOCATED

PEOPLE OF HONG EFFICIENTLY AND EFFECTIVELY TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE

KONG.

HOWEVER,

WITH THE

INCREASING

COSTS

OF

PROVIDING

MEDICAL STRETCHED то

SERVICES, THE EXISTING HOSPITAL SYSTEM HAD ALREADY BEEN ITS LIMITS TO MAINTAIN THE PRESENT LEVEL OF SERVICE.

OF GOVERNMENT AND SUBVENTED "THE EXISTENCE OF A DUAL SYSTEM HOSPITALS HAD MADE EFFECTIVE DEPLOYMENT OF RESOURCES DIFFICULT.

"MEANWHILE, THERE ARE RISING EXPECTATIONS AMONG ABOUT THE QUALITY OF CARE THAT THEY RECEIVE," HE SAID.

OUR COMMUNITY

CONFLICTING

BE

A

PRESSURES, THE GOVERNMENT HAD TO RESOLVE THESE

ΤΟ HOSPITAL STATUTORY

AUTHORITY CONCLUDED THAT THERE SHOULD

SERVICES IN ALL PUBLIC OVERSEE THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH

SETTING UP

AN ΤΟ HOSPITALS, WITH A VIEW ADMINISTERED HOSPITAL SYSTEM,

EVENTUALLY

INDEPENDENTLY

NEW

AUTHORITY HOSPITAL SIR DAVID SAID THE

DEPARTMENT SERVICES SERVICED BY A

HOSPITAL THROUGH A SYSTEM OF REGIONAL COMMITTEES.

WOULD INITIALLY WHICH WOULD

BE WORK

EACH REGIONAL COMMITTEE WOULD EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF HOSPITALS

ENSURING

THE

BE CHARGED WITH

ALL GOVERNMENT AND SUBVENTED THEY WOULD ALSO ACT AS REGIONS. RESPECTIVE THEIR IN

AS COORDINATING AND SUPERVISORY BODIES AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL, AS WELL

AND THE HOSPITAL A LINK BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL HOSPITAL MANAGEMENTS AUTHORITY ITSELF.

"ALL PUBLICLY-FUNDED

HOSPITALS

HOSPITAL AUTHORITY THROUGH THEIR THEIR PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES,

WILL BE ACCOUNTABLE REGIONAL COMMITTEES FOR ACHIEVING

HE SAID.

TO

THE

/HE POINTED