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MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1990

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REGISTRATION FOR TWO SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL PROFESSIONS TO BEGIN SOON

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LABORATORY OF THE

REGISTRATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGISTS WILL COMMENCE IN TWO MONTHS' TIME, THE CHAIRMAN

PROFESSOR TAM SHANG-WAI, SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL PROFESSIONS COUNCIL, SAID TODAY (MONDAY).

PROF TAM SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AFTER A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL,

AND DISCUSSION

MUCH THAT AFTER PROTRACTED SAID THEY WERE PLEASED

THESE TWO REGISTRATION FOR THE PARTIES HARD WORK OF

INVOLVED,

MEDICAL PROFESSIONS WAS ABLE TO COMMENCE SOON UNDER THE SUPPLEMENTARY PROFESSIONS ORDINANCE.

HE HOPED THAT REGISTRATION OF

PHYSIOTHERAPISTS, RADIOGRAPHERS

AND OPTOMETRISTS WOULD BE ABLE TO COMMENCE NEXT YEAR.

HELPS

"REGISTRATION GIVES

PROPER

TO RECOGNITION

AND STANDARDS

THE PROFESSIONS, PROVIDES BETTER

ΤΟ PROMOTE PROFESSIONAL PROTECTION TO THE PUBLIC," PROF TAM SAID.

ADDRESS OTHER

HE ADDED.

"IT ALSO PROVIDES THE NECESSARY BASIS FOR US TO ISSUES OF CONCERN TO THE SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL PROFESSIONS,'

WERE

DISCUSSED AT THE COUNCIL'S THE SUPPLEMENTARY

TWO SUCH RELATED ISSUES MEETING TODAY. THESE CONCERNED THE COMPOSITION OF

THE DELEGATION MEDICAL PROFESSIONS SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL TREATMENT BY DOCTORS TO UNREGISTRABLE PERSONS.

COUNCIL

AND BOARDS

AND

ON THE COMPOSITION OF THE COUNCIL AND THE BOARDS,

WAS ROOM FOR CHANGE GENERALLY FELT THAT THERE

OF

THE COUNCIL IN ORDER TO GIVE THE SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL GREATER RECOGNITION AND REPRESENTATION TO PROFESSIONS AND TO IMPROVE LINKS BETWEEN THE COUNCIL AND THE BOARDS.

RESPECTIVE

MEMBER OF THE

MEDICAL

SUPPLEMENTARY

ALL THE FIVE BOARDS ARE CURRENTLY CHAIRED BY A COUNCIL WHO IS NOT A MEMBER OF THE PROFESSION.

IDEAS MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, AT TODAY'S MEETING, ENDORSED THE

SHOULD NOT BE THAT MEMBERS OF THE SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL PROFESSIONS

AND THAT THE CHAIRMAN PROHIBITED FROM CHAIRING SHOULD BE ELECTED FROM AMONGST MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

THEIR

OWN BOARDS

THE BOARDS REFLECT THE THEMSELVES AND ARE IN MEDICAL COUNCIL

"THESE CHANGES TO THE COMPOSITION OF SPIRIT OF SELF-REGULATION BY THE PROFESSIONS LINE WITH THE PRESENT ARRANGEMENT IN THE CASE OF THE AND THE DENTAL COUNCIL, PROF TAM SAID.

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WHILE THERE WAS NO OBJECTION TO INCREASING OF THE SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL PROFESSIONS SAID IT WAS EQUALLY

IMPORTANT

THAT

THE

THE REPRESENTATION ON THE COUNCIL, PROF TAM ITS SHOULD DRAW COUNCIL OF THE PUBLIC, INCLUDING

MEMBERS FROM A SUFFICIENTLY WIDE SPECTRUM LAY MEMBERS AND MEMBERS OF OTHER HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONS.

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