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SFH on manpower in public hospitals

Following is the transcript of remarks made by the Secretary for Food and Health, Dr Ko Wing-man, after attending a public function today (October 10):

Reporter: Do you see a risk of medical staff in public hospitals being plunged away by the Gleneagles Hospital? What can public hospitals do to retain their staff?

Secretary for Food and Health: We are of course concerned about the fact that Gleneagles Hospital is going to employ medical, nursing as well as supporting staff from the existing hospitals, especially public hospitals. In this regard, the Hospital Authority (HA) has been in very close contact with the management of the Gleneagles Hospital so that their recruitment exercise could be dovetailed with the retention policy of the HA to ease out the transfer. I know that the HA has already adopted several measures, namely to employ the retired supporting staff, to improve training and development opportunities as well as to enhance the promotion prospect, to retain manpower.

Reporter: Dr Ko, so you are talking about the promotion system in public hospitals. What do you think because there is a lack of manpower and definitely the promotion is already quite good …

Secretary for Food and Health: The HA chairman Professor John Leong has recently explained that they had adopted several measures to enhance the promotion prospect of supporting staff. We are confident that these measures would be able to retain the necessary staff.

(Please also refer to the Chinese portion of the transcript.)

Ends/Monday, October 10, 2016
Issued at HKT 15:52
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