Replies to LegCo questions
LCQ7: Resource allocation of Hospital Authority
Following is a question by the Dr Hon Lui Ming-wah and a written reply by the Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food, Dr York Chow, in the Legislative Council today (January 11):
Question:
Regarding the resource allocation of the Hospital Authority (HA), will the
Government inform this Council whether it knows the following in each of the
past five years:
(a) a breakdown of HA's expenditures on remunerating senior executives,
specialists, non-specialists, general nurses and psychiatric nurses, as well as
the respective percentages of each of the above expenditure items in the overall
expenditure of HA;
(b) the respective numbers of senior executives, specialists and non-specialists
of HA, as well as their respective percentages in the total number of full-time
employees of HA; and
(c) the respective numbers of senior executives, specialists, non-specialists,
general nurses and psychiatric nurses of the hospitals and medical institutions
under HA, and their respective percentages in the total number of staff of the
hospitals and medical institutions concerned?
Reply:
Madam President,
(a) A breakdown of the expenditure of the Hospital Authority (HA) in the past
five years on remunerating management staff, specialist doctors, non-specialist
doctors, general nurses and psychiatric nurses, together with the respective
percentages of each of the above expenditure items in the overall expenditure of
HA, are given in Annex A.
(b) The respective numbers of management staff, specialist doctors and
non-specialist doctors of HA for the past five years, as well as their
respective percentages in the total number of full-time employees of HA, are
given in Annex B.
(c) At present, services of the HA are organised on a cluster basis. Manpower
resources are flexibly deployed, rotated and utilised amongst various hospitals
within the same cluster. The respective numbers of management staff, specialist
doctors, non-specialist doctors, general nurses and psychiatric nurses of the
hospital clusters under the HA for the past five years, together with their
respective percentages in the total number of staff of the hospital clusters
concerned, are given in Annex C.
Ends/Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Issued at HKT 13:09
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