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Subject
. Para-medical
Training
Optician Legislation and Training
21. Queen Mary Hospital
Purpose
To provide training facilities in certain of the para-medical fields
covered by the
Supplementary Medical Professions Bill now
being finalised; expanded
facilities are also
required to meet the
rehabilitation
programme and new projects endorsed by the Medical Development Advisory Committee.
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To control opticians by legislation and to provide training courses for them at the Hong Kong Polytechnic.!
To increase the clinical staff at Queen Mary Hospital, to review the long term staffing requirements, and to examine whether the integration system proposed for the Shatin
Progress made and present position
(a) A'meeting was held on 23rd May to finalise
the arrangements for training courses for physiotherapists, occupational therapists, radiographers and medical laboratory technicians to begin at the Hong Kong Polytechnic in October 1978. No major difficulties were encountered.
(b) Various meetings were also held to discuss the Supplementary Medical Professions Bill and subsidiary legislation and the draft memorandum for the Executive Council.
It is expected however that this exercise will be deferred slightly in order to consider impending University and Polytechnic Grants Committee's recommendations on this subject. Following discussions at the Medical Sub-Committee in June, the Chairman, University and Polytechnic Grants Committee wrote to Government recently drawing attention to some of the issues and complications involved in introducing a local training course for and legislation to control opticians. A reappraisal of the problem is required to establish what remedial action should be taken.
In view of the increasing patient load carried by the teaching staff at the Queen Mary Hospital, the University and Polytechnic Grants Committee made a recommendation that the University of Hong Kong's establishment at the Hospital" should be increased. Following discussion with the Director of Medical and Health Services, it was agreed that additional doctors were needed to
Next quarter targets
To submit the Bill to the Executive Council as soon as possible.
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To hold an early meeting with the parties concerned to resolve the difficulti
To undertake the review.
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