Dear Ms. Pamela LAM
Principal Assistant Secretary (Health)
Hong Kong is an Open Society where there is no fear of Competition which ultimately results the marginal advantage(s) to Hong Kong Citizens.
Please let the PRC Licensed CMPs practising here.
I take the development of a professional body, Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, HKICPA, as an example to illustrate my point above.
Since 1975 the growth of accounting industry by HKICPA in Hong Kong has been developing. Form 1975 to 2005, these 30 years, in order to build the accounting profession in Hong Kong, HKICPA admits the following professional accounting qualification UNILATERALLY:
Association of International Accountants (AIA)
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA)
The Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CICPA)
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA)
CPA Australia (CPAA)
Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA)
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ireland (ICAI)
New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants (NZICA)
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS)
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe (ICAZ)
South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA)
In doing so, qualified professionals are attracted to Hong Kong to help build the industry and up to the year of 2005/06. By now, HKICPA has about 30,000 members while compared to a few thousands of CMPs in Hong Kong.
Through this scheme, Hong Kong becomes one of financial centres in the world which may directly attribute for the sufficient availability of quaified acccounting professionals in Hong Kong.
Then, why not adopt the simlair approach as that of HKICPA if our Government wants to prosper the Industry of Chinese Medicine?
Going back the Medical Industry,
1. 高永文成為首批免考試在內地行醫的醫生 in 2005
2. CEPA5規定，內地允許開設港資獨資診所
Then why cannot our Government have the equivalent polic(ies) as that of Mainland China?
Please rectify the skewed policy immediately.
Thank you.
camson tang
From: "Pamela NM LAM"
To: camson1@hotmail.com
Subject: Registration of Chinese Medicine Practitioners
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:24:51 +0800
>
>Dear Mr Tang,
>
>I refer to your previous communications with the Private Office of the
>Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food, the Permanent Secretary for Health
>and Welfare and me.
>
>The Chinese Medicine Ordinance was enacted in 1999 after extensive
>consultation and deliberation. Under the prevailing principle of
>professional self-regulation, the Chinese Medicine Council of Hong Kong and
>the Chinese Medicine Practitioners Board were set up as independent
>statutory bodies and tasked to benchmark and maintain the standards of the
>Chinese medicine profession through examination, registration, disciplinary
>mechanism and continuing medical education. This regulatory system,
>similar to that for other healthcare professions such as doctors and
>dentists, aims to ensure the professional standard of Chinese Medicine
>Practitioners and protect the health and well-being of patients. Over the
>years the regulatory system has been implemented in phases and it has
>gradually gained the recognition of the public.
>
>To be eligible to undertake the Chinese Medicine Practitioners Licensing
>Examination, a person must have satisfactorily completed an undergraduate
>degree course in Chinese Medicine practice or an equivalent programme as
>approved by the Practitioners Board. The practice of CMPs is closely
>related to the health of the public. Therefore, the Practitioners Board
>considers that for students to complete satisfactorily an undergraduate
>degree course in Chinese medicine, they should have received comprehensive
>and fundamental university education as well as undergone full-time
>learning. Students should also be provided with adequate opportunity to
>practise continually in order to complete all the relevant clinical
>training and experiments. A full-time on campus learning environment is an
>important component of quality teaching. To maintain the professional
>standard and status of Chinese Medicine Practitioners, and with regard to
>the corresponding licensing requirements for other healthcare professions
>(e.g. medical practitioners and dentists), the Practitioners Board
>considers that the full-time mode of education should be adopted for the
>recognised courses for the Licensing Examination. The Practitioners Board
>at present recognizes the five-year full-time undergraduate degree courses
>in Chinese medicine offered by 31 Chinese medicine institutes and
>universities. Those courses have been assessed by the Committee on
>Assessment of Chinese Medicine Degree Courses or are recommended by the
>state authority entrusted by the Practitioners Board.
>
>CEPA and its supplements encourage the relevant competent authorities and
>professional bodes to consider mutual recognition of professional
>qualifications and exchange of professional talents between the Mainland
>and Hong Kong SAR.
>
>We fully appreciate that adequate manpower supply is vital to the
>development of Hong Kong’s healthcare system. The Government closely
>monitors the supply of and demand for healthcare professionals and would
>update our manpower planning from time to time. As for the training of
>Mainland nurses cited in your email, you may wish to note that under the
>plan, some Mainland students would be provided with training in public
>hospitals and they would return to the Mainland upon completion of the
>programme.
>
>We trust that the above and our previous replies should have clearly
>explained our position and we do not see the need for a meeting.
>
>Yours sincerely,
>Pamela LAM
>Principal Assistant Secretary (Health)
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