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LCQ7: Staff remuneration of Hospital Authority

Following is a question by the Hon Chan Yuen-han and a written reply by the Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food, Dr York Chow, in the Legislative Council today (October 26):

Question :

Will the Government inform this Council whether it knows:

(a) the total expenses on staff remuneration of the Hospital Authority (HA) in each of the past five years; together with the number of staff and amount of expenses on staff remuneration for each rank; and

(b) the respective ranks at management level and those in the frontline healthcare staff category under HA's existing human resources structure?

Reply :

Madam President,

(a) The yearly expenditure by the Hospital Authority (HA) on personal emoluments (including salary, allowance and staff on-cost), with a breakdown by staff groups, for the past five years are given in Table 1.

The number of staff in each staff group are given in Table 2.

(b) The management staff group encompasses the following ranks: - the Chief Executive, Directors, Deputy Directors/Functional Heads, Senior Executive Managers, Chief Legal Counsel and Executive Managers at the HA Head Office; and at the hospital level Cluster Chief Executives, Hospital Chief Executives, General Managers (Nursing) and General Managers (Allied Health). The vast majority of medical, nursing, allied health, and support and other staff are frontline healthcare staff.


Ends/Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Issued at HKT 16:24

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Annex 1 and 2 to LCQ7