GHK Connect – Issue No. 98 (September 2024)

Message from Chief Executive Officer

Dear Colleagues,

Many of you may have spotted from the recent news that we have launched our Gleneagles Clinical Trials Centre with some of you also joining its unveiling ceremony. To us, the opening of the Centre marks an important step forward in enhancing our capability in fostering the development of clinical research in Hong Kong. We will be focusing on oncology-related projects initially, but it is our hope that the Centre will expand into other clinical specialties and areas as we continue to collaborate with researchers, biotech companies and healthcare institutions to explore different innovative projects. With the support of HKU, I am confident that more research outcomes will be translated into new and effective treatment solutions and bring new hope to more patients. My sincere thanks to colleagues and teams who have assisted in the different stages of preparation for the Centre!

Another happy news I would like to highlight to you is that GHK has recently become a qualified training site of the American Heart Association (AHA) International Training Centre at HKUMed. Being a training site allows us to deliver a range of AHA basic and advanced cardiovascular life support training to our doctors and nurses who will in turn be trained to become certified instructors to train other healthcare staff. With empowering more people with life-saving skills being the key purpose of the initiative, I also look forward to extending the training to the community through offering HeartSaver courses to members of the public as the training team develops.

For those of you who joined the IHH’s annual Quality Summit held in India earlier this month, I hope you have found it a great occasion to connect with colleagues from our different operating markets and also to engage in some active knowledge exchanges on quality excellence with all the innovative minds. At this year's Summit, we have all the reasons to be proud of our colleagues as we celebrate our winning of a total of three Team and Individual awards in recognition of their outstanding service and clinical excellence and service improvement projects. My congratulations to our winning teams on these remarkable achievements! Your contributions are poised to help further raise our patient care and service quality, so thank you everyone!

Ahead of the upcoming flu season, I cannot stress enough the importance of getting well protected, especially when most of us often need to access clinical areas on a daily basis. Similar to previous years, we have arranged flu vaccination for you, so please look out for the details of this free service to be launched shortly.

Warm regards,

Highlights of the month

Further advancing medical research and healthcare outcomes

Celebrating clinical and service excellence at IHH Quality Summit 2024

Contributing to life-support training as American Health Association training site

Exchanging insights on medical technology advancement
at InvestHK seminar

Recent happenings
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Further advancing medical research and healthcare outcomes

We are pleased to share that GHK has launched its Gleneagles Clinical Trials Centre (Gleneagles CTC) which marks an important milestone in our commitment to advancing medical research and patient care.

Co-managed by GHK and HKU Clinical Trials Centre, Gleneagles CTC facilitates various types of clinical research and studies on treatments, procedures, drugs, vaccines, medical devices, fostering the translation from medical innovation to clinical application which will ultimately benefit patients. Through Gleneagles CTC, we look forward to achieving more impactful clinical research outcomes which will in turn bring innovative treatments and new hope to more patients.

Congratulations to the team of Gleneagles CTC!

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Celebrating clinical and service excellence
at IHH Quality Summit 2024

This year’s IHH Quality Summit was staged on 27 and 28 September in Mumbai, India. Themed “Redefining Healthcare for a New World”, the 2-day event gathered enthusiastic colleagues from IHH’s network to showcase their quality improvement projects and effective clinical initiatives in their respective markets.

Our staff are very encouraged by the recognitions received at this year’s Summit. Our “Cashier Navigation: Guiding Patient Expectation” project bagged the second place of the IHH Service Excellence Award, while the project which aims to enhance care for patients undergoing hysterectomy surgeries gained the third place of the IHH Clinical Excellence Award. Congratulations to our Business Office, Radiology, Operational Excellence, Service Excellence, and Quality, Safety & Risk Management teams for your remarkable efforts in elevating patient care and experience!

We also put our hands together for our Environmental Services Manager Sunny Ngai who won the third place of the IHH Service Excellence Award (Individual) for his efforts in optimising the hospital’s manpower and streamlining workflow of sample delivery through the adoption of a new porter service mechanism.

A big round of applause for our awardees and all colleagues who are tirelessly delivering the best possible care for patients day and night!

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Contributing to life-support training
as American Health Association training site

GHK has recently been qualified as a training site of the American Heart Association International Training Centre (AHAITC). Under the guidance of the AHAITC at the LKS Faculty of Medicine of The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), our doctors and nurses will have access to the AHA-accredited instructor courses on basic and cardiovascular life support, and they will in turn become certified instructors who can provide emergency care training for other healthcare staff. In the slightly longer run, we hope to extend HeartSaver courses to members of the community to empower them to learn skills that can save lives during emergencies.

Earlier on, colleagues and friends gathered to celebrate the first anniversary of the AHAITC at HKUMed and sent appreciation to healthcare professionals, including some of our staff, who have participated in the Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) training programmes under the AHAITC.

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Exchanging insights on medical technology advancement
at InvestHK seminar

Gleneagles had the pleasure to join the “Hong Kong as Asia’s Medical Technology Hub - Navigating Regulations and Realising Opportunities” seminar organised by Invest Hong Kong. The seminar provided an engaging platform for healthcare leaders and industry practitioners to delve into Hong Kong’s pivotal role in the medical device industry.

In an exchange with other panelists, our CEO Dr Kenneth Tsang shared some of the advantages for medtech companies and innovators to conduct their clinical research in a private hospital setting where direct and close collaboration with doctors, who play a pivotal role in clinical trials, can be achieved. Also highlighted were GHK's contribution to fostering clinical validation of medical innovations and the translation of research into impactful solutions through collaborating with different home-grown and overseas medtech innovators, institutes and startups.

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Recent happenings

Mid-Autumn Festival celebration

GHK celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival with colleagues by hosting the Lantern Carnival
and sharing mooncakes. Colleagues sent warm wishes and blessings to each other
while enjoying the games booths and festive delicacies at the carnival.

Fighting against Legionnaires' Disease

A staff forum was organised to enrich colleagues’ knowledge of Legionnaires' Disease and keep them well-informed of the hospital’s latest policies in managing the disease.

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