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Department of Health is also exploring ways to foster closer collaboration with private health care professionals through a system of shared care and partnership in clinic services.
5.
It is Government policy to discourage smoking.
During the
year, new legislation was enacted to tighten controls. Further anti-smoking measures will also put to the public for consultation. These are being considered in the
light of community attitude and aspirations.
6.
The Hong Kong Academy of Medicine was established by statute in August. It will coordinate post-graduate training continuing education for doctors. It will be Hong Kong's
centre of excellence in specialist training to world
and
standards.
Welfare
7.
In the field of welfare, secure funding will be provided to meet key targets set by the White Paper on Social
Welfare and the Green Paper on Rehabilitation. Recurrent spending on social welfare will increase by 26% in real terms between now and 1997. This has been made possible by a
Government injection of $2.3 billion into the Lotteries This capital sum is to be drawn down over the period from 1993-94 to 1996-97, principally for making grants to
subvented organizations to meet the recurrent costs of their
social welfare or rehabilitation services.
fund.
8.
A new Comprehensive Social Security Assistance Scheme to replace the existing Public Assistance Scheme will be introduced with effect from 1 July 1993 to assist persons
whose income falls below a prescribed level. The scheme
includes different standard assistance rates to meet the
general needs of clients and special subsidies to meet the personal needs of individual clients. The benefits will be
improved with the new scheme.
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