Page 57 - Hospital Authority Annual Report 2016-2017

Hospital Authority Annual Report 醫院管理局年報 2016-2017

Strategic intent: 策略目標：
Ensure adequate resources for meeting 確保具備足夠資源應付服務需要
service needs
政 府 繼 續 支 持 香 港 的 公 營 醫 療 服 務， 在
The Government continued its commitment to public healthcare 2016-17 年 度 向 醫 管 局 撥 款 達 530 億 元。
through providing subvention to HA, which reached $53 billion in 醫管局會貫徹審慎理財原則，確保資源用
2016-17. HA would continue to adopt prudent financial measures 得其所及符合成本效益。
to ensure public resources are used properly and efficiently.

Through HA’s annual planning exercise, resource requirement 醫管局透過周年工作規劃，按照整體資源
of individual clusters was identified and considered against the 審視和考慮各聯網的需要，以維持現行服
total amount of resources available to HA, so as to maintain 務水平、聘請畢業生以培訓及加強本港未
existing levels of services, to train and build up Hong Kong’s 來的醫護人才，及切實地提高服務量以應
future healthcare workforce by recruiting new graduates, and 付殷切的服務需求。為確保提供的服務合
to provide pragmatic service growth in meeting the pressing 乎 經 濟 效 益， 醫 管 局 定 期 監 察 涵 蓋 服 務
demand for public hospital services. To facilitate the delivery 量、服務表現和資源運用的各項表現指標。
of value-for-money services, HA regularly monitors a set of
performance indicators covering service output, performance
and resources.

In 2016-17, HA recruited additional manpower to sustain the 因 應 醫 療 服 務 需 求 日 益 增 加， 醫 管 局 於
level of service provision to cater the rising healthcare needs 2016-17 年度繼續增聘人手，以維持服務
of the community. Given no additional recurrent Government 水平。由於政府整體採取措施控制開支，
subvention in 2016-17 under the Government-wide expenditure 醫管局未能獲得額外的經常性撥款。因此，
control measures, HA had to operate under a deficit budget 醫管局在財赤預算下運作，錄得 15 億元的
in 2016-17 and recorded an operating deficit of $1.5 billion, 營運虧損，並動用一次性的收入儲備作為
which was funded by HA’s one-off revenue reserve as an interim 過渡措施。現行醫療服務提供量會帶來經
measure. Since service provision will bring recurrent financial 常性財政負擔，動用一次性的儲備維持日
implication, the deployment of one-off savings to maintain daily 常營運，長遠來說並不可行。醫管局會繼
operation will not be sustainable in long term. HA will continue 續進行中期財政推算，評估在不同情況下
to perform medium-term financial projection to assess possible 的財政展望，並向政府反映醫管局的財務
financial outlooks under different scenarios and reflect its 狀況及資源需要。
financial position and funding needs to the Government.

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