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7 Medical Faculty News Solid Foundations HKUSZH is the physical embodiment of the Faculty’s re-engagement with the Mainland. It was opened in July 2012 to apply HKU’s clinical governance practices in a Mainland hospital and contribute to healthcare reform. It has pioneered online appointment booking, banned “red packets”, ended indiscriminate IV therapy, and made its fees and charges transparent, among many other reform initiatives. It took people time to get used to the new protocols but by mid-2018, the hospital has treated over six million patients in the past six years, providing clinical services in 21 specialties and providing clinical training for over 600 HKU students every year. Its latest initiative is to start carrying out living donor liver transplantation from 2019, a speciality in which HKU academics have been world leaders, including the Hospital Chief Executive of HKUSZH and Chin Lan-hong Professor in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Professor Lo Chung-mau. The hospital’s consistently high standards amid rapid expansion have brought it fame and recognition. Its achievements have been reported extensively in Mainland, Hong Kong and international media. In 2015 the hospital was accredited by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards Committee (ACHS). In November 2017 it gained 3A Hospital Accreditation, the highest level possible. In 2018 it was selected as one of Guangdong’s “Project Summit” hospitals, which are being provided with funds to develop their potential in integrating medical service, teaching, research and management. Each Summit Project hospital receives funding of RMB300 million from Guangdong and an additional matching fund of RMB900 million from Shenzhen city. HKUSZH has also been a recipient of funding under the Sanming (Three Famous) Project of Shenzhen, with six projects receiving a total of RMB 70 million in such areas as liver transplant, breast cancer treatment, radiotherapy and oncology, and spinal disease. 5 The Dean is keen for the Faculty to be both a participant and a leader in the national health-sector reform movement, a role for which the Faculty has already achieved recognition.