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All registrants are reminded to renew your annual practising
certificates that will expire on 30 June each year. In accordance
with section 16 of the Supplementary Medical Professions Ordinance,
no registrant should practise his/her profession in Hong Kong
unless he/she holds a practising certificate that is then in
force. |
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All registrants should keep the Secretary to the Medical Laboratory
Technologists Board informed of your updated correspondence/practising
address(es) within two months of such a change. |
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Companies carrying on the business of practising medical laboratory
science are reminded to provide the requested information with
the Secretary to the Medical Laboratory Technologists Board
by completing the prescribed statement form within 14 days after
1 July in each year. |
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Guidelines on "Precautions
to Prevent Transmission of Infection in the Clinical Laboratory"
issued by the Department of Health |
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A
practical guide for SARS laboratories issued by the Regional
Office for the Western Pacific of the World Health Organisation |
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A
practical guide for infection control in health care facilities
issued jointly by the South-East Asia and Westen Pacific Regional
Offices of the World Health Organisation |
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Under section 11 of the Supplementary Medical Professions Ordinance,
a list of the names, addresses, qualifications and dates of
the qualifications of all persons whose names appear on the
register has to be published annually in the Government of the
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Gazette. The correspondence
address that you provide to the Medical Laboratory Technologists
Board will appear in the Gazette and on the relevant Government
website where the e-Gazette is published. The names and the
registration numbers of registrants will also be posted on the
website (www.smp-council.org.hk/mlt/english/index.htm)
of the Medical Laboratory Technologists Board. The main purpose
of publishing such information is to protect the public by creating
a public record of persons who are registered medical laboratory
technologists and are entitled to practise the profession in
Hong Kong. |
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A
letter dated 9 August 2005 issued by the Medical Laboratory
Technologists Board to registered medical laboratory technologists. |
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The Centre for Health Protection publishes guidelines on medical
laboratory practices on its website (www.chp.gov.hk) from time
to time. Please take note of those guidelines. |
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Implementation of Five-day Week Duty Pattern for the Medical
Laboratory Technologists Board Secretariat
The Secretariat of the Medical Laboratory Technologists Board
will move to the five-day week duty pattern commencing
from 1 January 2007. The new opening hours of the
Secretariat and its registration office will be from 9:00
a.m. - 6:00 p.m. on Mondays and 9:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. from
Tuesdays to Fridays, with meal break fixed at 1:00 p.m. -
2:00 p.m.. Other service arrangements, e.g. handling of
registration applications and correspondences to the Medical
Laboratory Technologists Board by mail, payment of registration
fees and other related expenses, handling of enquiries and
complaints, etc. will remain unchanged and will be provided
during the above-mentioned new opening hours.
In case you have any enquiries arising from the five-day
week duty pattern, please contact the Secretariat at 2527
8360 and/or the registration office at 2961 8647. |
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A letter dated 13 December 2006 on "Hong
Kong Childhood Immunisation Programme (2007)"
issued by the Centre for Health Protection, Department of
Health
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Submission of annual CPD return
All CPD participants are reminded to report on their attendance
of CPD activities during the period from 1 January 2007
to 31 December 2007 by submitting a duly completed Record
Sheet of CPD Programmes/Activities Attended (Form II)
to the secretariat on or before 31 January 2008
either by mail (Secretariat, Medical Laboratory
Technologists Board, 2/F, Shun Feng International Centre,
182 Queen¡¦s Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong) or by
fax (no. 2865 5540). Please note that a number of
CPD participants will be randomly selected for in-depth checking
of their CPD attainment record. The participants concerned
will be requested to submit copies of the documents of attendance
to the Board for audit check in due course. |
