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香港医管局 | 卫药厅局 |
The Hospital Authority is a statutory body established on 1 December 1990 under the Hospital Authority Ordinance to manage all public hospitals in Hong Kong. It is an independent organization which is accountable to the Government through the Secretary for Health and Welfare, who is responsible for the formulation of health policies and monitoring the performance of the Authority.
The Hospital Authority formally took over the management of all the 38 public hospitals and institutions, and their 37,000 staff on 1 December 1991. It currently manages a Head Office, 43 public hospitals / institutions, 47 specialist outpatient clinics and 13 general outpatient clinics. As at 31 December 2001, the Authority managed a total of 29,022 hospital beds which represented around 4.2 public hospital beds per 1,000 population. It employs 49,692 full-time and 98 part-time staff. For 2002/2003, the Authority’s recurrent expenditure budget from Government, net of income, is HK$29,881 million.
The Authority is mainly responsible for delivering a comprehensive range of secondary and tertiary specialist care and medical rehabilitation through its network of health care facilities. The Authority also provides some primary medical services in 13 primary care clinics providing 938,800 general outpatient attendances. In 2001/2002, there were a total of 1,213,600 inpatient and day patient discharges and deaths, 8,461,500 specialist outpatient attendances and 2,594,700 Accident and Emergency attendances.
The Government’s health care policy is to safeguard and promote the general public health of the community as a whole and to ensure the provision of medical and health services for the people of Hong Kong, including particularly that large section of the community which relies on subsidised medical attention, so that no one should be prevented through lack of means from obtaining adequate medical attention, the mission of the Hospital Authority is:
To meet the different needs of the patients for public hospital services, and to improve the hospital environment for the benefit of the patients;
To serve the public with care, dedication and efficiency, and to encourage community participation in the system, resulting in better care and more direct accountability to the public;
To provide rewarding, fair and challenging employment to all its staff, in an environment conducive to attracting, motivating and retaining well-qualified staff;
To advise the Government of the needs of the community for public hospital services and of the resources required to meet these needs, in order to provide adequate, efficient and effective public hospital services of the highest standards recognised internationally within the resources obtainable;
To collaborate with other agencies and bodies in the health care and related fields both locally and overseas to provide the greatest benefit to the local community.
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香港 |
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147B Argyle Street, Kowloon, Hong Kong Special Adm |
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