Hong Kong West Cluster (HKWC)
| Number of general outpatient clinics | 6 |
| Throughput | |
| Number of beds | 3,142 |
| Patient discharges* | 212,733 |
| A&E attendances | 129,674 |
| Specialist outpatient attendances (clinical) | 891,261 |
| General outpatient attendances | 395,348 |
| Full-time equivalent staff | 8,137 |
* Total inpatient, day patient discharges and deaths
Over the years, HKWC has been fostering a close partnership with Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong in support of undergraduate and postgraduate medical and nursing education, training and research, as well as development in healthcare technology and services. The commencement of redevelopment of QMH is one step further to enhance future partnership.
Manpower shortage and high turnover in particular among the supporting care colleagues is a major concern to HKWC. To allay the issue, HKWC has not only stepped up recruitment and retention initiatives for Patient Care Assistants (PCAs) but also continued with the annual progression exercise for PCAs working in wards with 24 hours services.
Continuous efforts have been made to increase service capacity. These included enhancing the capacity of renal replacement therapy for patients with end-stage renal disease by providing additional home automated peritoneal dialysis treatment and home haemodialysis treatment. The service hours of radiotherapy services in QMH was also extended to cater for escalating needs. Designated beds in GH with multi-disciplinary support were provided for chronic ventilator-dependent patients. The Joint Replacement Centre in DKCH was set up to provide additional sessions of operation for patients on Hong Kong Island. A Pain Clinic was set up in MMRC to implement pain management programme and provide multi-disciplinary care for patients. The child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient services were enhanced by providing additional new case consultations to curtail the waiting time due to growing service demand.
Patients’ accessibility to radiological imaging services was enhanced through the introduction of densitometry service at QMH. To cover more Residential Care Homes for the Elderly in HKWC, the Community Geriatric Assessment Team service was strengthened with additional outreach attendances.
The Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy nurse clinic was established in QMH to ensure safe and effective oncology services. Through the establishment of the Sterile Service Department in HKWC, six reprocessing sites in QMH were supported and sterilisation service was provided to GH. The service capacity of In-vitro Fertilisation (IVF) was further enhanced by the provision of additional IVF cycles in QMH to cope with the growing service demand.
The central coordinated refill service for medical consumables and linen items was implemented in hospital wards of QMH and TYH to strengthen business support services. Additional resources were provided for the first stage of Phase One QMH Redevelopment Project to ensure smooth transition and continuous provision of clinical services in the planning process.