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CONFIDENTIAL #2 機密

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To provide a soundly based regional service and at the

same time to enable the best use to be made of resources, planning will be based on the need for each region to be served by

(a)

a regional hospital: this would be a major acute

hospital equipped with facilities necessary to

treat patients requiring the highest level of

specialist care; it may be that some highly

specialised facilities should be concentrated

in a particular hospital as a colony-wide service

but in broad terms a regional acute hospital should

be capable of providing the region which it serves with all major general specialist services to an

appropriate degree of sophistication.

(B) one or more district hospitals: these hospitals will

provide the basic hospital services in the region

(0)

and will receive patients whose condition is not such as to warrant referral directly to the

regional hospital; a district hospital will

perform a dual role; where the condition of the

patient so warrants he will be referred to the

regional hospital for the more specialised levels of treatment; a district hospital will

also receive patients from the regional

hospital for the later stages of their

treatment when it is medically appropriate

for them to be transferred;

one or more specialist clinics or polyclinics:

these will provide the necessary support and

out-patient specialist services including those for patients

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