Policy Address

X. Healthcare

Public Healthcare Services

220.         An ageing population puts tremendous pressure on our healthcare services.  This year, the HA will strive to provide about 230 additional hospital beds, and increase operating theatre sessions, quotas for general out-patient consultation, places for endoscopy examination and provision of emergency surgical service this year. 

Ten-year Blueprint for Hospital Development

221.         To meet new demand and improve existing services, the Government has worked with the HA to devise an overall hospital development plan, and $200 billion will be used to implement the plan in the next ten years.

222.         Tin Shui Wai Hospital and the Hong Kong Children’s Hospital are expected to be completed in 2016 and 2017 respectively.  Apart from projects that have commenced, namely the redevelopment of Kwong Wah Hospital, Queen Mary Hospital and United Christian Hospital, and stage one construction of an acute general hospital in the Kai Tak Development Area, the hospital development plan for the coming decade also includes stage two construction of the acute general hospital in the Kai Tak Development Area, and the redevelopment or expansion projects of the Tuen Mun Hospital Operating Theatre Block, Haven of Hope Hospital, Prince of Wales Hospital, Kwai Chung Hospital, North District Hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital Lai King Building, Grantham Hospital and Our Lady of Maryknoll Hospital.  The above projects will provide some 5 000 additional public hospital beds and over 90 new operating theatres. 

223.         The Government puts much emphasis on putting in place major hospitals to offer one-stop and multi-disciplinary healthcare services to the public.  According to the plan, the acute general hospital in the Kai Tak Development Area will provide around 2 400 beds.  Together with the 468-bed Hong Kong Children’s Hospital, the two will form a large state-of-the-art medical centre.  This is another large-scale medical institute since the completion of Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in 1993, which signifies our commitment to public healthcare services. 

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