Hospitals index to guide decisions on staff levels

A new index will be introduced by the Hospital Authority to measure the staffing needs of individual hospitals and departments, according to a package of emergency measures aimed at tackling the record high turnover in public doctors.

It is the first time that a scientific formula - which the authority says will be transparent to all - will be used to work out staffing situations so medical graduates hired each July can be fairly deployed.

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