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Medical Registration Ordinence (Chapter 161)

Purpose

Hospital could be adapted for use at Queen Mary Hospital.

To amend the existing legislation to allow:

(a) continued automatic

acceptance of United Kingdom qualifications;

(b) other qualifications from countries which give reciprocal recognition to Hong Kong qualification; and

(c) discretion to admit any

Hong Kong belonger whose qualifications do not fall within (a) or (b).

Progress made and present position

cover the service element of the Hospital. Subsequently 16 Government doctors were approved It was also agreed that the working party which looked at the medical staffing requirements and organisational structure at Shatin Hospital should be re-convened to review the long term overall establishment at Queen Mary Hospital and the full implications of adopting the integration system proposed for the Shatin Hospital.

Next quarter targets

To prepare drafting instructions and to prepare a Bill.

In view of the recent enactment of the Medical Act, 1978, the Medical Council of Hong Kong decided at a meeting on 11th July that the Medical Registration Ordinance should be suitably amended so as to keep in line with developments in the United Kingdom. (The Medical Act 1978, which received Royal Assent on 5th May, contains provisions to end the present system whereby the existence of reciprocal privileges, of practice between Britain and certain countries overseas is a pre-condition of the recognition by the General Medical Council of overseas qualifications for the purpose of full and provisional registration of medical practitioners in the United Kingdom. Under the new system, overseas doctors will no longer be entitled to full registration, but the grant of such registration will be at the discretion of the General Medical Council if the doctor's qualification meets the new requirements for gen recognition). The Medical Council of Hong Kong also decided to relax some of the present restrictions with a view to allowing Hong Kong

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