The 10th Issue of Policy Briefing, NADS: Reform of Hong Kong’s Medical and Health Policy: How Does the World’s Most Efficient Medical System Cope with Challenges?

Since China’s new round of reform of the medical and health sectors was fully initiated in 2009, the reform has entered the deep water zone and is faced with more and more difficulties and challenges. Disputes caused by such reform have also been growing. Seen from the whole reform process, discussions on China’s medical reform direction have referred more to models and experience of developed countries in Europe and America while neglecting lots of valuable experience and lessons of the Chinese society in the mainland and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions. With the world’s most efficient medical system, Hong Kong has a great deal of experience and lessons for the mainland to learn. So, RUC NADS invited Associate Prof. He Jingwei from the Department of Asian and Policy Studies of the Education University of Hong Kong to share Hong Kong’s experience in medical and health policy reform and allow us to better understand its medical system. This article is a complete record of Dr. He’s lecture and consists of three sections. Section one is about host speech and guest lecture. Dr. He introduced the basic framework, practice, major problems, causes, and three core reform measures in Hong Kong’s medical system. On this basis, he also summarized some implications for mainland medical reform; section two is about guest comments. Du Chuang, associate researcher at the Institute of Economics, CASS made some wonderful comments on the lecture and posed some questions for thinking; section three is about Q & A and interaction. Teachers, students and media professionals had active interactions with Dr. He on issues of medical system reform.