Complaints and Disciplinary Inquiries

Complaints Against Doctors

About the Medical Council

We give doctors their licence to practise medicine in Hong Kong. We are set up to protect patients and guide doctors. We do this by:

• promoting good medical practice;
• keeping an up-to-date register of qualified doctors;
• promoting high standards of medical education; and
• taking action where there is a complaint about a doctor's professional conduct or a concern about his fitness to practise.

The Council shall comprise 24 registered medical practitioners and 8 lay (non-medical) members. Lay persons (including lay members and lay assessors) shall take part in most stages of the complaints procedure.