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Chapter 5
A REGIONAL APPROACH
5.1
Since 1949 one of the most noticeable features of
Hong Kong has been the increasing concentration of population in
the urban areas, particularly Kowloon. With the development of
Kwun Tong and more recently of the new town at Tsuen Wan a new
pattern of population distribution has already occurred.
With
the development of the new towns at Sha Tin and Tuen Mun, this
pattern will become more marked. The provision of medical and health
facilities must reflect this and the emphasis must be on ensuring
that medical services are available within reasonable access of the
new centres of population. It is accordingly opportune to introduce
a fresh approach to the administration of medical and health services
to ensure that future planning can be based progressively on a more
direct and more comprehensive view of the medical and health needs
of each of these main population centres.
5.2
Some parts of the health services are already administered
on a regional basis; the administration of medical services (concerned particularly with the hospitals) remains centralised at Medical and
Health Department headquarters. These aspects will now be brought
more closely together and a coordinated management system for both
medical and health services will be developed at regional level. With
this new approach the medical and health divisions of the department
will be more closely integrated, future planning will be better
related to the needs of each area and the way will be opened for the
establishment of new integrated arrangements to enable fuller use to be made of available hospital beds.
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