| (1) | Motion on "Implementing small class teaching", moved by Hon Audrey EU Yuet-mee as amended by Hon Mrs Selina CHOW LIANG Shuk-yee and further amended by Hon CHEUNG Man-kwong
"That this Council urges the Government to make optimal use of the resources saved due to the drop in the primary and secondary school student population to provide training for teachers on small class teaching and, through a 'by district and by grade' mode of transition, progressively implement small class teaching, starting with primary schools and junior secondary forms, to enable teachers to tailor their teaching to students' varied abilities, so as to realize and achieve the goal of quality education, promote education reform and fulfil the expectations of parents, teachers and students."
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| (2) | Motion on "Overall development of Chinese medicine practitioners", moved by Hon LI Kwok-ying as amended by Hon LEUNG Yiu-chung and further amended by Hon Andrew CHENG Kar-foo
"That, whereas the professional status of Chinese medicine practitioners ('CMPs') has been established for quite a long time, the development of CMPs has been handicapped because the Government does not have a long-term development strategy for Chinese medicine, is not adequately involved in this regard, and fails to establish avenues for CMPs to receive professional training or provide proper registration avenues that cater for the CMPs' tradition of acquiring practice skills through apprenticeship or family succession, resulting in some 3 000 listed CMPs still not being able to become registered CMPs, this Council urges the Government to formulate a long-term policy on the development of CMPs, which should include:
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| (a) | expediting the expansion of the scope of services provided by CMPs in the public medical system, implementing the outstanding plan to set up 15 public Chinese medicine out-patient clinics, establishing a mechanism for public hospitals whereby their in-patients can seek joint consultation and treatment by CMPs, setting up a Chinese medicine in-patient department in public hospitals, and studying the establishment of a Chinese medicine hospital;
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| (b) | establishing a committee on the development of Chinese medicine, and formulating strategies and policies to facilitate the development of Chinese medicine, such as giving statutory status to the sick leave certificates issued by CMPs, and reviewing the medical equipment that CMPs are allowed to use;
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| (c) | formulating a mechanism and avenues for CMPs to receive professional training;
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| (d) | having regard to the unique circumstances of CMPs and bone-setters who acquire their practice skills through apprenticeship or family succession, devising a more suitable examination system and syllabus for them, and arranging for the listed CMPs concerned to receive training before taking the examination, in order to enable them to become registered CMPs smoothly;
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| (e) | reforming the compositions of the Chinese Medicine Council of Hong Kong and its various boards and committees, and enhancing their transparency and the representativeness of their members, so as to enable them to reflect a wide spectrum of opinions in the sector;
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| (f) | reviewing the levels of fees as well as the fee subsidy and waiver systems in respect of public Chinese medicine out-patient clinics, and considering subsidizing elderly recipients of Comprehensive Social Security Assistance payments who use the services of non-public Chinese medicine out-patient clinics; and
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| (g) | giving statutory status to the insurance claim forms, receipts and other documents issued by CMPs, and reviewing CMPs' rights and responsibilities in the referral of patients."
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