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Renovate, Rejuvenate, Innovate

In the year 2018-20 the cluster hospitals continued to upgrade its facilities to meet
service demand and pursue innovations to improve the comfort and convenience
of both patients and staff, harnessing the power of web-based technology and
cloud-based systems. The culture of “doing things in a new way” has laid a solid
foundation to the adoption of more technology and innovation – driven service
delivery models in the new hospital redevelopment projects of the Prince of Wales
Hospital and the North District Hospital 10 years down the road.

New service and
new building plans

Planned capacity enhancement projects 2019, vacating the site needed for the
of the cluster hospitals proceeded construction of a new In-patient Block
steadily throughout 2018-2020 with the (IPB) and internal vehicular access. The
expansion of existing service capacity Decanting Block at the Shatin Hospital
and the addition of new services. That was also completed on time in March
includes an addition of 77 beds in 2020 to dovetail with the relocation of
PWH, 60 beds in AHNH, 33 beds in existing back-end offices from PWH.
NDH and 20 extended care beds
in SH; the successful renovation of
17 existing wards across the cluster;
the provision of additional 90 genetic Tech for Good
tests for patients with brain tumour
and 236 chromosome microarray tests While the applications of technologies
for prenatal diagnosis at PWH; a 1000 like robotics and big data have made
additional attendances for MRI scans at a splash across all industries, it is often
PWH and an additional 2,200 and 2000 believed that their greatest impact will
CT scans at PWH and NDH respectively; be in healthcare. Different service units
the start of 24-hour intravenous of the Cluster have made significant
thrombolytic therapy for stroke patients inroads to innovate the adoption
in NTEC through a cluster-based of technology and let patients and
network since Feb 2019, among many users access service in the comfort
others. and convenience of their homes or
via mobile device in 2018-2020. Of
Meanwhile, the Phase 2 note, the Physiotherapy Department
Redevelopment Project of PWH of the Alice Ho Liu Ling Nethersole
has made good headway with the Hospital launched the E-rehabilitation
completion of the demolition of a major Exercise Resource Centre in Oct 2018,
part of the existing quarter blocks in providing a virtual one-stop portal