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(iii) private clinical practice which includes private patients who are referred for consultation in the teaching hospital and/or those who receive in-patient treatment within the hospital in the private wards, and consultations outside of the hospital usually at the request of a doctor in private practice.

(e)

The level of remuneration which staff receive for outside work varies significantly depending on its nature. According to records available, in the past three years, the highest annual remuneration which a member of staff in the UGC-funded institutions received for undertaking outside work was in respect of a clinical academic who earned about $560,000.

End/Wednesday, July 19, 1995

Patients seeking accident and emergency treatment

Following is a question by Dr the Hon Huang Chen-ya 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:

(a)

(b)

of the number of patients seeking treatment at the accident and emergency departments of public hospitals, together with the percentages of patients seeking treatment during daytime (8:00 am - 4:00 pm), evening (4:00 pm to midnight) and midnight to early morning (midnight- 8:00 am) respectively in each of the past three years; and

in each of the periods mentioned in (a) above, how many patients required admission or referral to specialist clinics for follow-up; how many were trauma cases and how many were cases that could have been treated in general out-patient departments?