new fees regime<\/a> was implemented on New Year\u2019s Day it had seen a \u201csignificant decrease\u201d in average daily A&E attendance, while more low-income families and underprivileged groups were being supported.<\/p>\n\u201cThe service data of the past week shows that the fees and charges reform allowed A&Es to perform their emergency care function more effectively,\u201d an authority spokesman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cA&Es can better concentrate resources, treat patients with urgent medical needs more effectively and improve treatment efficiency for urgent cases.\u201d<\/p>\n
Between January 1 and 7, 32,147 patients attended the 18 A&Es operated by the authority, a decrease of 11.9 per cent from the same period last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visits to accident and emergency (A&E) departments at Hong Kong\u2019s public hospitals have dropped by nearly 12 per…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[55443,168712,27271,49,48,168713,84,392,89681,168715,15674,168710,163157,168714,140270,10569,168711,130791,168716],"class_list":["post-399792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ae","tag-accident-and-emergency","tag-ageing-population","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fee-waivers","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-healthcare-system","tag-hk3-billion","tag-hong-kong","tag-hospital-authority","tag-january-1","tag-medical-fee-waiver","tag-new-years-day","tag-patients","tag-pricing-regime","tag-public-hospitals","tag-urgent-cases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}