The Hospital Authority (HA) announced today that it has appointed a Review Committee on the Management of the Public Hospital System to review several recent incidents in connection with hospital operations and facilities.

The committee will review several aspects relating to quality and patient safety including the mechanisms for monitoring performance and compliance in clinical guidelines and organisational procedures, systems for internal risk control, systems for management accountability and staff appraisals to accord with performance, compliance and risk-control mechanisms and incident response arrangements.

It will also conduct a comprehensive systemic review on the governance, appraisal, accountability, operations, risk control and compliance at the HA Head Office, clusters, hospitals, service units/teams and staff levels.

The authority noted that the committee will put forward its recommendations to the HA Board within three months to ensure that public hospitals provide quality healthcare services to the public.

Prof Fok Tai-fai will be committee chairman, with Sylvia Fung, Dr Lawrence Lai, Daniel Lam, Dr David Lam, Dr Joseph Lui, Dr Lui Siu-fai and Tim Pang as members.