Medical and Health Services (constituency)

The Medical and Health Services functional constituency is composed of—

• medical practitioners registered or deemed to be registered under the Medical Registration Ordinance (Cap. 161); and
• dentists registered, deemed to be registered or exempt from registration under the Dentists Registration Ordinance (Cap. 156); and
• chiropractors registered under the Chiropractors Registration Ordinance (Cap. 428); and
• nurses registered or enrolled or deemed to be registered or enrolled under the Nurses Registration Ordinance (Cap. 164); and
• midwives registered or deemed to be registered under the Midwives Registration Ordinance (Cap. 162); and
• pharmacists registered under the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance (Cap. 138); and
• medical laboratory technologists registered under the Medical Laboratory Technologists (Registration and Disciplinary Procedure) Regulations (Cap. 359); and
• radiographers registered under the Radiographers (Registration and Disciplinary Procedure) Regulation (Cap. 359; and
• physiotherapists registered under the Physiotherapists (Registration and Disciplinary Procedure) Regulation (Cap. 359); and
• occupational therapists registered under the Occupational Therapists (Registration and Disciplinary Procedure) Regulations (Cap. 359); and
• optometrists registered under the Optometrists (Registration and Disciplinary Procedure) Regulation (Cap. 359); and
• dental hygienists enrolled under the Ancillary Dental Workers (Dental Hygienists) Regulations ({{Cite Hong Kong ordinance|156}); and
• audi}ologists, audiology technicians, chiropodists (also known as “podiatrists”), dental surgery assistants, dental technicians, dental technologists, dental therapists, dietitians, dispensers, mould laboratory technicians, orthoptists, clinical psychologists, educational psychologists, prosthetists, speech therapists and scientific officers (medical) who are in the service under the Government, or are employed in Hong Kong, at the following institutions—
  • public hospitals within the meaning of the Hospital Authority Ordinance (Cap. 113);
  • hospitals within the meaning of the Private Healthcare Facilities Ordinance (Cap. 633) for each of which a licence under that Ordinance is in force;
  • clinics maintained or controlled by the Government or The Chinese University of Hong Kong or by the University of Hong Kong;
  • services subvented by the Government; and
• Chinese medicine practitioners who are members of any of the following bodies and entitled to vote at general meetings of the respective bodies—
  • The Hong Kong Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine Limited;
  • International General Chinese Herbalists and Medicine Professionals Association Limited;
  • Sin-Hua Herbalists’ and Herb Dealers’ Promotion Society Limited;
  • Society of Practitioners of Chinese Herbal Medicine Limited;
  • The Hong Kong T.C.M. Orthopaedic and Traumatic Association Limited;
  • The Hong Kong Federation of China of Traditional Chinese Medicine;
  • Hong Kong Acupuncturists Association;
  • Hong Kong Chinese Herbalists Association Limited;
  • Association of Hong Kong & Kowloon Practitioners of Chinese Medicine, Limited;
  • Hong Kong Chinese Medicine Practitioners Association Limited; and
• registered Chinese medicine practitioners registered under the Chinese Medicine Ordinance (Cap. 549).