Group to examine payments
The University of Hong Kong lost no time in setting up a new working group to address patient billing problems, which have been in the spotlight since the former dean of its faculty of medicine resigned.
The council-level group was set up a day after a committee of inquiry released a report on Wednesday recommending that such a body be established to plug deficiencies.
The group will be chaired by York Liao, a council lay member who is also a non-executive director of the Securities and Futures Commission.
Its members are: Raymond Liang Hin-suen, the acting dean of the faculty of medicine; lawmaker Leong Che-hung, who also chaired the committee of inquiry; and John Malpas, pro-vice-chancellor in charge of planning and resources.
Professor Liang, a haematologist, was appointed to his post after Lam Shiu-kum resigned in March.