Day: October 16, 2023

Hong Kong doctors overseas return to work in public hospitals, wooed by better pay, less taxation, training opportunities.

Special registration scheme has helped Hospital Authority attract 71 overseas-trained doctors so far, another 40 in the near future.

Recruitment drives in UK and Australia drew strong interest, with more planned to bring doctors back. Canada, New Zealand and US are also in the list.

80 healthcare professionals from Guangdong Province who are participating in Greater Bay Area Healthcare Talents Visiting Programmes. Together with seven doctors, two Chinese medicine experts who arrived earlier, and another Chinese medicine expert who will arrive in Hong Kong April 18, the aim is to uplift the level of the healthcare sector in Hong Kong and the Mainland for the benefit of patients through professional exchanges over the course of a year or so.