CHEUNG, Anthony B. L.  <br/><br/>
Modernizing public healthcare governance in Hong Kong :  a case study of professional power in the New Public Management  

 - UK :  Taylor & Francis ,  set. 2002 
<br/><br/> 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