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Appendices

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Table 26

(Chapter 9: Health)

Hospital Beds and Selected Types of Registered Healthcare Professionals

2013

2017

2018

Number

Rate(1) Number

Rate()

Number

Rate(#

Hospital beds

Ordinance definition(2)

36,720 5.1

39,683 5.4

OECD definition(3)

28,637 4.0

30,159

4.1

40,434 5.4

30,783 4.1

Doctors(4)

13,203 1.8

14,290

1.9

14,651

2.0

Chinese medicine practitioners

Registered Chinese medicine

6,743

0.9

7,425

1.0

7,409 1.0

practitioners(5)

Chinese medicine practitioners with

61

§

38

§

35

LO

limited registration(6)

Listed Chinese medicine

2,715

0.4

2,623 0.4

2,610 0.3

practitioners(7)

Dentists(4)

Nurses(8)

Midwives

Pharmacists

Chiropractors

2,310

0.3

2,500

0.3

2,553 0.3

45,846 6.4

54,231 7.3

56,723

7.6

4,597

0.6

4,611

0.6

4,445

0.6

2,285

0.3

2,753

0.4

2,890

0.4

180

§

218

§

234

§

Notes:

Figures are as at the end of the year.

(1) Figures refer to the rates per 1,000 population.

(2) Figures include all hospital beds in Hospital Authority hospitals, private hospitals, nursing homes and correctional institutions, which follow the coverage of the Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Maternity Homes Registration Ordinance.

(3) Figures comprise only hospital beds in Hospital Authority hospitals and private hospitals and exclude accident and emergency observation beds, day beds and nursery beds, which follow the definition of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

(4) Figures refer to doctors and dentists with full registration on local and overseas lists.

(5) After full implementation of the Chinese Medicine Ordinance, all Chinese medicine practitioners (CMPs) should be registered before they can practise Chinese medicine in Hong Kong. Any person who wishes to be a registered CMP should have satisfactorily completed an approved undergraduate degree course of training in Chinese medicine practice, and taken and passed the licensing examination.

(6) CMPs with limited registration are allowed to perform clinical teaching and research in Chinese medicine in specified educational and scientific research institutions. Their registration period should not exceed one year and they cannot engage in private practice with patients.

(7) Listed CMPs can practise lawfully in Hong Kong under transitional arrangements for the registration of CMPs until a date to be announced by the Secretary for Food and Health in the Government Gazette. Listed CMPs may become registered CMPs through direct registration, registration assessment or the licensing examination during the transitional arrangements.

(8) Figures refer to registered nurses and enrolled nurses.

#

Provisional figures.

§ Less than 0.05.

Sources: Department of Health

(For enquiries, please call 2961 8582.)

Hospital Authority

(For enquiries, please call 2300 7458.)

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