Letter to Dr. Leung PY about limited registration

26 September 2012

Dr. Leung Pak Yin, JP

Chief Executive, Hospital Authority

Dear Dr. Leung,

About limited registration

I do NOT agree to expand the exercise of limited registration before reviewing and tackling the underlying cause of manpower crisis.  

I would like to ask,

1.         How many Associate Consultants/ Consultants are deployed to non-clinical areas ? e.g. HAHO, accredidation, training, quality and safety, infection control, information technology etc.

2.         Some members report to us that there are consultants or COS without actual clinical duties in busy clinical departments.  Do you have the figures that the clinical consultants/ COS without actual clinical duties ?

3.         How many meetings are there in HAHO meeting room every month  (not include training or workshop)?  How many doctor hours are involved in the meetings ?

4.         Is there any guideline or rule inside Hospital Authority in renewing the contract of doctors with limited registration, (a) in the past, (b) now, (c) and in the future?  What is the consequence if the managers do not follow the guideline ?

I am looking forward to receiving your detail reply.

Yours sincerely,

________________

Dr. Pierre CHAN

給會員的信

 各位同事，

二零一一年，對公立醫院醫生來說，可謂是不簡單的一年。由屯門醫院內科爆發醫生流失潮開始，情況蔓延至各聯網其他醫院和專科；及後出現醫管局要求輸入有限度註冊海外醫生，大幅增加醫科生學額；雙非孕婦大量湧港產子，影響對港人服務等問題相繼出現。這些問題的根源都是由於醫管局管理層目光短淺、欠缺長遠計劃、管理不善、忽略醫生工作環境和漠視業界意見所造成。

在這些艱難的日子裏，PDA各人四出奔走、盡心盡力，竭盡所能地為同事爭取應有的權益和待遇，多次與管理層在談判桌上反映訴求。在此，本人要向各幹事及同事們衷心説一聲：「多謝支持」。

此外, 我們也積極參加持首選委會選舉，希望借助選舉令有關方面正視公立醫生苦況，聆聽我們訴求，改善醫療政策。PDA成功要求醫管局推出十項挽留員工方案，改善員工晉升機會及工作環境，挽留人才和經驗。縱使成果漸露，但醫管局仍有不少「甩甩漏漏」，極待改善之處。減少了10%的流失，對管理層來說已是很了不起的成績，沾沾自喜；但站在PDA的立場，即使只有一位前線同事因受到不公平對待，未能晉升而流失，也不能接受，必定會去信局方，絕不手軟，並且會監察進展。

今年六月，承蒙各會員鼎力相助，我們的週年大會得以順利舉行，新一屈幹事會亦於當晚順利誕生。展望未來，公立醫院醫生還要面對很多不同挑戰，如人手和經驗流失、資源不足和分配不均、山頭主義、同工不同酬、每周和連續工時過長、工作量超出負荷、忽略醫生培訓，青黃不接等問題，相信在未來數年仍會斷續困擾同業。憑藉大家的支持及鼓勵，本會各人將繼續努力，為同業爭取合理權益，改善工作環境，確保醫生和病人的健康。

本會除了關注及監察各項公營醫療政策之外，也積極為公家醫生爭取利益及優惠。2004年起，ING保險集團和亞洲保險聯手為各位提供的專業責任保險(MPPS)，於本年度將保額由7百50萬提高至一千萬，保費維持不變，我們更成功取得兩家公司為各位提供多種保險價格優惠，這不但可令同事有更多選擇，同時防止單一公司壟斷市場，妄意提升保費的情形出現。

另外，我們成功增設了免費智能手機平台(PDA apps), 方便發佈消息,增加與會員之間的聯系和雙向溝通, ( 下載PDA apps 可參閱信內的membership form 或HKPDA Website )。最後, 希望各位繼續支持PDA，積極參加本會活動及發表意見，與我們一同成長。
祝 大家工作愉快，身體健康!

謝謝！
公共醫療醫生協會會長 傳錦峯
二零一二年八月

Letter to Dr. Leung PY about 5-year post fellowship Associate Consultant (AC) promotion exercise

10 August 2012
Dr. Leung Pak Yin, JP
Chief Executive, Hospital Authority

Dear Dr. Leung,
Complaint letter from frontline residents

We have recently received complaints from our members concerning about the 5-year post fellowship Associate Consultant (AC) promotion exercise jointly agreed by HAHO and doctor unions in the Task Force in 2011 and we would like to direct it to you for your further action.

The aim of the above mentioned exercise is to improve the morale among the frontline medical staff and to reduce the problem of brain drain. However, after more than a year of implementation, problems arise. One major problem of this exercise is that it runs in the form of batch. Instead of being promoted automatically, those qualified candidates need to wait for recruitment exercises which run yearly in July. Since different specialties have difference examination date, such arrangement inevitably incur the problem of unfairness among different specialties. Doctors who have their exit examinations completed after July will have a significant delay in promotion compared with those working in specialties that have their exit examinations conducted before July. Such difference creates discrimination and it undoubtedly further jeopardizes the morale among medical staff and the trust to our HAHO management.

In order to resolve the problem, we suggest fine-tuning the current AC promotion exercise as continuous basic. The AC promotion process is able to be smooth out if it automatically proceeds within 6 months after passing the fellowship examination in the respective specialty. The alternative is to practice the AC promotion biannually. Such improvement should minimally increase the administrative burden as there is merely paper work without interview arrangement.

We would be most grateful if you would seriously consider our suggestion and reply us as soon as possible so that this matter could be resolved to everyone’s satisfaction.

Yours sincerely,



___________________
Dr. Fu Kam Fung, Kenneth
President, Hong Kong Public Doctors’ Association

你支持清拆醫管局管理「僭建船」嗎?

致: 醫學會候選人公開信

你支持清拆醫管局管理「僭建船」嗎?

謝鴻興候任醫學會會長，陳以誠候任醫學會副會長，周伯展候任醫學會副會長，

醫學會會董候選人: 張漢明醫生，江明熙醫生，李福基醫生，李深和醫生，冼佩儀醫生，黃品立醫生和楊超發醫生：

今次醫學會會董選舉，有您們各位資深的醫生參選，實為業界之福。

一年前，醫管局突然改變其管理手法，要求所有員工自行向人力資源部遞交年度執業證書副本，這個政策帶出以下問題：

（1）浪費數以千計的紙張：跟政府的環保政策背道而馳；

（2）浪費了人力物力：為額外檢查5000多份文件，浪費人力資源部同事和醫生數以百計工作小時；

（3）醫管局管理大白塔急需照肺：原來只是一個很小的行政工作，卻因為醫管局管理層的「官僚文化」，把行政工作又再推到臨床的員工身上，令很多公立醫院醫生不滿。

我們有以下的問題想向各位請教：

假如您當選，您是否會採取實質行動，推動醫學會，以及醫學會在醫務委員會為公家醫生討回公道。

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公共醫療醫生被迫過度勞累，有誰想看過勞醫生？

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公共醫療醫生被迫過度勞累，有誰想看過勞醫生？

香港公共醫療醫生協會（下稱「本會」）高度關注香港醫學雜誌首次就公共醫生過度勞累發表高質素研究，本會有以下回應：

1.        該研究透過本會向公共醫生發放問卷，根據國際研究標準進行高質素獨立分析，結果顯示大部分回應的醫生都在極度勞累的情況中，反影老中青醫生的工作過度勞累情況十分嚴重；

2.        研究亦同時指出，香港公共醫生雖然面對極度勞累困局，但是平均每人每年只請一天病假，本會一方面對公共醫生緊守崗位為香港市民服務致敬，另一方面也想指出有很多醫生同事會帶病上班，有誰想看過勞和帶病的醫生呢?

3.        研究也顯示香港公共醫生除了病態工時，工作量增加以致過度壓力一直未有得到管理層的重視。

本會就今次研究結果，已即時去信醫院管理局管理層及新政府班子反映同事的苦況。