Annual Highlights

Highlights of the Year 2024-25

The Residential Care Homes Legislation (Miscellaneous Amendments) Ordinance 2023

The Ordinance, gazetted on 16 June 2023, seeks to enhance the service quality of residential care homes (RCHs) for the elderly and RCHs for persons with disabilities. Among the new requirements introduced under the Ordinance, except those relating to enhanced staffing and increased the area of floor space per resident, which have a longer transitional period, most provisions, including strengthening the accountability of RCH operators, introducing a registration system for home managers, improving the registration system for health workers, and enhancing administration of medicine, took effect on the material date of the gazettal of the Ordinance (i.e. 16 June 2024).