ABSTRACT
This chapter examines health care development between the years 1966–67 when the riots took place and the mid-1980s in Hong Kong. It provides a critical review of the context and practices of public medical services prior to analysing the health care reforms started with the publication of the Scott Report in 1985. The mid-1960s was characterised by the publication of various White Papers on health care, social welfare and housing. An old issue of the shortage of registered doctors working in government service was getting more serious with the outbreak of riots in 1966 and 1967. The doctors were politically sensitive to these riots as much as they were pessimistic towards the circumstances of Hong Kong after the imposition of the United Nations embargo upon trade with China in 1950. A Working Party on Unregistrable Doctors was appointed in September 1974 after the second Medical White Paper was tabled in the Legislative Council in July 1974.
