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Your Excellency,

MEDICAL & HEALTH DEPARTMENT, LEE GARDENS,

HYSAN AVENUE,

HONG KONG.

30th July, 1973.

We were appointed in March 1973 as members of the Medical Development Advisory Committee with the following terms of reference:

"To keep under continuous review and to advise on the develop- ment and phased implementation of medical and health services in Hong Kong having regard to all factors which would determine the progress of expansion including financial, the rate of building construction and the availability of qualified staff, and on the principles of subvention.'

We received also at the same time the following special remit :

'Having regard to the fact that the targets of the 1964 White Paper for the Medical and Health Services have been largely achieved, to advise on what programmes of improvement and expansion would be appropriate over the next 10 years in the circumstances of Hong Kong, and for this purpose to recommend:

(a) the general standards to be achieved by 1983;

(b) the priorities, both functional and geographical of the major

projects necessary to achieve these standards;

(c) the phasing of such projects over the period 1973-82, with estimates of annual increased needs for staff, buildings and

money;

(d) any other matters they consider relevant to the preamble

to this paragraph.

2. To make recommendations on how a more even use could be achieved of Government and Government-assisted hospital beds.

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