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clinic serving the region and within reasonable travelling

distance of his home. If the doctor at either a general

or specialist clinic considers that in-patient treatment

is necessary the patient will then be referred either to a

district hospital serving the region or to the regional

hospital, depending on the treatment required. Subsequently

he would be transferred when his condition permits to a

non-acute bed for convalescence, in a district hospital or

infirmary. Thus a patient not considered to require the

most complex and highly specialised treatment would not

normally be referred to a regional hospital but one whose

treatment does require a stay in an acute hospital bed would

be transferred to a non-acute bed for convalescence at the

appropriate point in his treatment.

6.4

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Such however is the distribution of hospital beds

that to secure these results it is necessary first to achieve

an improved degree of administrative and organisational

integration between hospitals and clinics in the Government

and aided sectors than exists at the present time. This will,

in turn, involve changes in the system of charges and of

subventions to Government-assisted hospitals which participate

in the scheme.

6.5

Initially it is proposed that the new integrated

arrangements will apply only to third class general beds.

All Government hospitals will participate and it is anticipated

that in addition the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, the United

Christian Hospital, the Buddhist Hospital and the Caritas

Medical Centre will take part from the outset. As experience

of the scheme is gained, consideration could perhaps be

given to the inclusion of other assisted hospitals, of

which

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