CHEUNG, Anthony B. L.
Modernizing public healthcare governance in Hong Kong : a case study of professional power in the New Public Management - UK : Taylor & Francis , set. 2002
The article examines Hong Kong's experience in modernizing corporatizing public healthcare governance in order to enhance management autonomy and service efficiency, against the backgroundof a previous regime of centralized departamental control and amid the worldwide trend of new public management. The reform, culminating in the establishment of a hospital authority, is found to be wrought with intense intrabureaucratic conflict,as well as rivalries between professional and administrative bureacrats, bew]tween professionals of different sector, and between medical and para-medical providersm instead os breaking up traditional professional monopoly and opening up the system to non-medical general management, corporatization has resulted in an unplanned entrenchment and re-empowerment of medical professional power
Modernizing public healthcare governance in Hong Kong : a case study of professional power in the New Public Management - UK : Taylor & Francis , set. 2002
The article examines Hong Kong's experience in modernizing corporatizing public healthcare governance in order to enhance management autonomy and service efficiency, against the backgroundof a previous regime of centralized departamental control and amid the worldwide trend of new public management. The reform, culminating in the establishment of a hospital authority, is found to be wrought with intense intrabureaucratic conflict,as well as rivalries between professional and administrative bureacrats, bew]tween professionals of different sector, and between medical and para-medical providersm instead os breaking up traditional professional monopoly and opening up the system to non-medical general management, corporatization has resulted in an unplanned entrenchment and re-empowerment of medical professional power
