The Hospital Authority

Introduction:

1. Background of the Hospital Authority

The Hospital Authority is a statutory body. It is monitor by the Secretary for Food and Health of the Hong Kong Government. It has been in service since 1991. In 2011, The Hospital Authority has about 58,000 staff and manages 41 public hospital and institutions, 48 Specialist Out-patient Clinics and 74 General Out-patient Clinics in different district, to ensure that members in community can get the service easily. The mission of The Hospital Authority is helping Hong Kong community stay healthy and to ensure that no one cannot obtain enough medical treatment account of lack of means. It is committed to providing comprehensive, affordable and highly professional healthcare services to Hong Kong community.

2. Objective of the report

In this year, there are many articles talking about the lacks of doctors working in public hospitals. For example, many doctors who specialize in internal medicine in Tuen Mun Hospital had resigned. The public is really concern about lacking in doctors will affect the running of the public hospitals. In the report we will first to show the actual working circumstances of doctors in public hospitals. Also we will analyze the main causes of why they have kept complaining and wanted to leave according to the secondary data we have found. Lastly, we would like to provide some recommendations to the Hospital Authority. Hope that our suggestions will be useful to solve the problem.

3. State of the problem

In recent year, many public hospital doctors are going into private hospitals especially in this year. It is because many public hospital doctors are resentful at the way they have been treated. They have kept complaining about the heavy workload, low salary and so on. Although the Hospital Authority has been brought out many suggestions these suggestions are not effective. So in this year, the problem of short- staffed is become more and more serious. For example, Tuen Mun Hospital has recently seen an exodus of doctors.

4. Background of the issue

In these few months, many public hospital doctors through Hong Kong Public Doctor’s Association to complain their input are not equal to the outcome. Therefore many doctors left the job so that it caused shortage of doctors. According to the Hospital Authority, they predicted that the doctor turnover in January 2011 is 6.8 percent which is the highest record in these five years. Such as the situation in Tuen Mun hospital, which is managed by The Hospital Authority, is facing a serious problem. There have been about 20 percent of the hospital's frontline teams of 80 physicians resigned since the beginning of last year. In these doctors, most of them are medical