While the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) is looking for more economical ways to run its operations, the imposition of user fees is not yet on the table for discussion.
Chairman Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland made the disclosure in the QEH’s boardroom after this year’s six most outstanding interns were awarded on Monday.
“That [user fees] hasn’t come up yet as a policy recommendation. But we do have to look at the mix of how we provide services. And I think people are not so concerned about where they get services as much as that they get the service. So what we’ve been looking at is: are there services in the hospital that can better be done outside of the hospital at a lesser cost to the Government?” she said. (TG)
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