{"id":208809,"date":"2025-12-29T01:32:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T01:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/208809\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T01:32:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T01:32:25","slug":"hong-kong-to-deploy-1000-hospital-staff-to-guide-patients-through-fee-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/208809\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong to deploy 1,000 hospital staff to guide patients through fee reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong\u2019s public hospitals will deploy more than 1,000 service ambassadors to help residents adjust to <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/hong-kong-health-care-and-hospitals?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">healthcare reforms<\/a> taking effect next Thursday, with authorities saying the system revamp for the fee changes is entering its final stage.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Dr Wong Yiu-chung, the Hospital Authority\u2019s director of cluster services, said on Saturday that public hospital systems, including billing and dispensing, had been updated to reflect the adjusted fees, which aimed to address structural challenges in the healthcare sector.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Under the revamp set to take effect on January 1, the government aims to reduce its public healthcare subsidy rate from 97.6 per cent, one of the highest in the world, to 90 per cent by 2030.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe have completed the final stages of testing,\u201d Wong told a radio show. \u201cAll systems are quite stable, and I am quite confident the changes will be implemented as we expected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He said that great effort had gone into publicising and explaining the different stages and scope of the reforms to both medical staff and residents.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wong said one of the patients\u2019 biggest concerns was the new medical fee waiver scheme, which expands eligibility for subsidised or free healthcare from 300,000 to 1.4 million people by relaxing income and asset limits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s public hospitals will deploy more than 1,000 service ambassadors to help residents adjust to healthcare reforms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[116514,116509,163,521,116510,3448,57860,85,46,93030,116513,116512,116508,92368,116511],"class_list":["post-208809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ae","tag-director-of-cluster-services-wong-yiu-chung","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-hk400","tag-hong-kong","tag-hospital-authority","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-january","tag-medical-fee-waiver-scheme","tag-priscilla-poon-yee-hung","tag-public-healthcare","tag-public-hospitals","tag-service-ambassadors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}