get real, most of your older generation doctors are mostly from the UK, you are telling me that after 1997 suddenly the standards dropped in the UK so badly, that you need to take an exam to check the standards. And guess what, the pass rate of the exam is just around 5 people per year, not to mention the ones that have dinner with the examiners 1 week before. So overall the pass rate for the ordinary person without Daddy or Mommy that can fix you a meeting with the examiners before the exam is almost 0%. Do remember there are 2 groups of students that study in the UK, one elite group that studies at Oxford or Cambridge, and another group that won't be able to get into medical school in HK. Now the elite group stays in HK because of the exam imposed since 1998. Get rid of the private doctors in the committee, and create more specialists training posts for your local HK graduates, and you can import as many overseas trained doctors as you want, without opposition! You want an example, just copy Singapore. But the salary needs to come down (just provide low cost housing for doctors). Just one last thing, you can't import doctors that are not trained in English, ie all the Chinese trained ones, because they won't be able to understand or write medical reports, blood results and everything else in English. I for one can't understand any Chinese medical reports from China, the last time I tried it took me a few hours to 1/2 understand it, it is impossible to do it for every patient, then ask me to write a medical report in Chinese is not easy. Now turn it around for a Chinese trained doctor, and you can imagine the difficulty involved. Communicating with patients in Cantonese or Mandarin for a local person (but trained overseas) is not that difficult, they still speak Cantonese with friends and family normally, they can get used to it within 6 months or less.