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Hospital Authority

(醫院管理局)

Hospital Authority
醫院管理局
The latest news and top stories on Hospital Authority of Hong Kong, a statutory body that manages the city's public hospitals and clinics. Its main responsibility is to ensure comprehensive affordable healthcare services for residents. It also develops smart hospitals and recruits healthcare professionals. It is headquartered at 147B Argyle Street in Kowloon.
People fill the streets in Kwun Tong at lunchtime. In driving economic innovation, the protection of human capital, and mental health, is strategic. Photo: Dickson Lee
Mental health

Letters | 5-year plan must take mental health seriously for the economy’s sake

Readers discuss why mental health ought to be positioned as a strategic asset, and how the city is well-placed to build health resilience for the world’s most impoverished.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Contractor ordered to fix faulty lifts causing Queen Mary Hospital block delay

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Editorial | Education and communication can ensure end-of-life law benefits all

Hong Kong society

What’s a Burmese python doing in Causeway Bay? Expert links reptile to rain

Snake measuring up to three metres long caught on camera near Jardine Noonday Gun by jogger on Sunday evening.

Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden identified the snake as a Burmese python, noting its geometric patterns and its distinct shades of light and dark brown, black and white Photo: Handout
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

How can retirees beat rising healthcare costs in Hong Kong?

Hong Kong has long relied on both public and private hospitals and clinics, but medical inflation is pricing out elderly patients.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Residents sign directives as Hong Kong’s new end-of-life law takes effect

Advance Decision on Life-sustaining Treatment Ordinance provides clearer protection and removes legal uncertainty for patients and doctors.

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Hong Kong courts

Hong Kong doctor spared jail for fraudulently obtaining cough syrup, ADHD drugs

Lee Chi-leung handed 160 hours of community service and ordered to pay Hospital Authority HK$20,000 after being found guilty of misconduct in public office.

Misconduct in public office is punishable by up to seven years in jail when the case is heard in the District Court. Photo: Jelly Tse
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

How does Hong Kong’s new end-of-life law affect patients and medical staff?

The SCMP explores family rights under the law and what happens to healthcare professionals who fail to comply with end-of-life directives.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Paramedics to follow ‘rescue first’ rule if in doubt under new end-of-life law

Fire Services Department official says paramedics must first verify physical proof before stopping life-sustaining treatment on patient.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Medics warn of split-second calls under Hong Kong’s new end-of-life law

Formal legal framework will empower Hongkongers to specify in advance which life-sustaining treatments they wish to refuse when terminally ill.

The Hospital Authority's Doris Tse says ambulance workers have clear guidelines on how to handle emergencies under the new law. Photo: Dickson Lee
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

End-of-life directives to go on eHealth as new law takes effect in Hong Kong

Hospital Authority’s Doris Tse says Advance Decision on Life-sustaining Treatment Ordinance ‘milestone for Hong Kong’s end-of-life care’.

The Hospital Authority's Doris Tse says the new ordinance provides clearer legal protection for both patients and healthcare professionals. Photo: Elizabeth Cheung
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Jury rules baby died of natural causes despite nurse error in medical tube check

Hong Kong coroner says jury can rule death by natural causes if infant Angel Yu had a ‘pre-existing fatal condition’.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Baby Rufus in urgent need of heart donation, Hong Kong health authorities say

Hospital Authority will also seek assistance from mainland China under cross-boundary organ donation and matching mechanism.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Disciplinary cases involving intern and resident doctors triple over 4 years

Hong Kong recorded 35 cases during past financial year, compared with 12 in 2022-23, health chief Lo Chung-mau tells lawmakers.

The Hospital Authority building in Mong Kok. Health minister Lo Chung-mau stressed that the disciplinary cases accounted for only a small share of the number of intern and resident doctors employed and pledged to maintain professional standards. Photo: Jelly Tse
Education in Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s third medical school hires 300 teachers, expects to raise intake to 200

Recruits include retired professors and doctors, with only one teacher coming from another local medical school, dean says.

Construction of the medical school is under way at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology campus in Clear Water Bay. Photo: May Tse
Crime in Hong Kong

Boy, 16, in a critical condition after fall through school classroom window

Teen believed to have been knocked from behind as he climbed through window.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

‘I’m so scared’: parents of dying Hong Kong girl, 13, pray for organ ‘miracle’

Parents of Ching Ching, who needs new heart and lungs, ask families who recently lost loved ones to help her fulfil wish of returning home.

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Hong Kong society

Fine firms for data breaches, Hong Kong cybersecurity experts urge

Call comes after personal information of more than 1 million people linked to leading appliance distributor was maliciously encrypted.

The city’s privacy watchdog has launched an investigation into the breach earlier reported by Shun Hing Group. Photo: Getty Images
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong moves antenatal care to public hospitals in reform push

Public hospitals to offer one-stop antenatal services after integration from maternal health centres as part of two-phase plan starting on Monday.

Hong Kong society

Opinion | How employers can support high-risk carers who fall through safety net

With the right awareness and tools, employers can serve as effective first responders for those beyond the government’s safety net.

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Editorial | More younger non-local doctors will be to Hong Kong’s benefit

It is good that the government seeks to further relax rules to attract more doctors. High standards of practice also ought to be maintained.

A busy ward at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Yau Ma Tei. Photo: Felix Wong
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

‘I see hope’: how mindset shifts help cancer patients cope with diagnosis

From art therapy to counselling, psychological support and palliative care improve quality of life and treatment outcomes, experts say.

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Illustration: Henry Wong
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Exclusive | Why having more foreign-trained doctors in Hong Kong won’t threaten local ones

Health minister Lo Chung-mau says city lacks doctors trained in certain branches but hospitals will always prioritise local hires.

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Education in Hong Kong

Hong Kong records 91 suspected student suicides in 3 years, majority boys

Education Bureau says number of suspected fatal cases among primary and secondary students was 32 in 2023, 28 in 2024, and 31 in 2025.

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Doctor boyfriend of sacked Hong Kong medical intern also fired for misconduct

Resident doctor at Tuen Mun Hospital involved in unauthorised examination at Ruttonjee Hospital, health authorities say.

The case has been linked to the firing and arrest of a 24-year-old intern doctor originally working at Caritas Medical Centre. Photo: Dickson Lee
Hong Kong society

Hong Kong parents in welfare custody case say 2-month-old baby sick in hospital

Baby Danny was at one point recommended for meningitis testing.

Kwan Pui-sin (left) and Tsang Wai-bong at Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital. The parents accuse authorities of neglecting the baby’s need for breast milk. Photo: Jelly Tse
Hong Kong society

Editorial | Social media tempts but patient confidentiality must be upheld

The arrest of an intern doctor, who is also an online influencer, and the suspension of a resident doctor show more ethics training may be needed.

Crime in Hong Kong

Intern doctor released on bail, returns to hospital as part of police probe

Woman, 24, dismissed by Hospital Authority for misconduct could face up to five years in prison over alleged access of patient data.

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