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Modernizing Public Healthcare Governance in Hong Kong: A Case Study of Professional Power in the New Public Management

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  • Anthony B. L. Cheung

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This article examines Hong Kong's experience in modernizing and corporatizing public healthcare governance in order to enhance management autonomy and service efficiency, against the background of a previous regime of centralized departmental 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 intra-bureaucratic conflict, as well as rivalries between professional and administrative bureaucrats, between professionals of different sectors, and between medical and para-medical providers. Instead of 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.

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  • Anthony B. L. Cheung, 2002. "Modernizing Public Healthcare Governance in Hong Kong: A Case Study of Professional Power in the New Public Management," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 4(3), pages 343-365, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmgr:v:4:y:2002:i:3:p:343-365
    DOI: 10.1080/14616670210157238
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