Professor Lau Chak-sing calls for change in rules governing medical professionals trained overseas, as debate rages about how to solve staffing shortage in public hospitals.

How much better might the perception of the Hospital Authority’s performance be, and how less stressed its frontline professionals, if they were left with more time for their primary jobs of caring for patients

The most difficult problem the hospital system is facing is an acute and chronic worker shortage, which cannot be simply solved with more money.

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Hong Kong’s health care sector has long had a shortage of space and of workers and they will be under unacceptable pressure until this is addressed.

Hong Kong’s ‘angels in white’ turn to blogging as an outlet, but also recall why they signed up to serve the sick and how they are bent on soldiering on amid serious manpower shortfalls and lack of ward space in public sector.

While the latest cash injection into Hong Kong’s struggling health care system is a gesture to pacify those working on the front line, what is really required are more qualified doctors