Page 63 - Hospital Authority Annual Report 2016-2017

Yan Chai Hospital (YCH) Kwai Chung Hospital (KCH) Hong Kong Buddhist
Princess Margaret Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Hospital (HKBH)
Hospital (PMH) Transfusion Service (BTS) Kowloon Hospital (KH)

special-care needs in special schools was enhanced by Caritas Medical Centre (CMC)
recruitment of additional case managers in KWH and CMC. The
primary care service was enhanced with additional attendances Tsan Yuk Hospital (TYH) Kwong Wah
in the Family Medicine Triage Clinics to reduce the waiting time Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Hospital (KWH)
for specialist outpatient clinics. The access to target population Fung Yiu King Hospital (FYKH)
groups was further improved by providing additional evening The Duchess of Kent Children‘s Queen Elizab
sessions in North Kwai Chung General Outpatient Clinic. Hospital at Sandy Bay (DKCH) Tung Wah Hospital (TWH)
Queen Mary Hospital (QMH)
To improve medication safety, Inpatient Medication Order Entry MacLehose Medical
system was extended to CMC. Rehabilitation Centre (MMRC)

With an aim to strengthen the emergency preparedness during
major outbreaks of infectious diseases in Hong Kong, additional
manpower was recruited in PMH to provide rapid response at
the first stage of disease emergence.

HONG KONG EAST CLUSTER (HKEC)

HKEC has been optimising service capacity, improving St John Hospital (SJH)
service accessibility and retaining talents against the growing
demand and manpower shortage. Our people are the
key to deliver quality patient services. Staff training and
development remained one of the main focuses of HKEC.
RTSKH Accident and Emergency Training Centre (AETC) was
granted Silver Award by the American Heart Association in
recognition of its exemplary resuscitation and emergency
care training programmes in December 2016 and has taken
over the Post-Basic Simulation Training for HA nurses in June
2016.

Despite escalating service demand, HKEC is committed
to high standard service quality and patient safety.
PYNEH and TWEH completed the Periodic Review of
Hospital Accreditation in June 2016. The Cluster Catering
Department strived to ensure food safety and achieved
the ISO 22000:2005 – Food Safety Management System
certification in April 2016. RTSKH renovated its Special
Accommodation Ward in January 2017, incorporating
elderly-friendly design and facilities.

Services in pressure areas were strengthened through
enhancing capacity in acute surgical beds and operating
theatre sessions per week in PYNEH in October 2016.
TWEH was awarded the “Social Capital Builders Awards”
in 2016 by the Labour and Welfare Bureau for its
excellent support to the carers of chronically ill patients.
HKEC adopts advanced technologies to modernise patient
service. A new upper limb robotic device “Hand of Hope”
was installed in December 2016 in Tseng Cheng Tseng
Pei Integrated Community Rehabilitation Centre in TWEH
to facilitate patients’ hand rehabilitation. Department of
Orthopaedics and Traumatology in PYNEH was the first
in Hong Kong to successfully manufacture and implant
a replica of a talus with 3D printing technology for a
patient.