Page 43 - Annual Report

Council and Committee Reports 院務委員會及其他委員會報告

Task Force on Laws for Healthcare Practitioners 醫療人員相關法律專責小組
Seminar on Medical Consent: Practical Implications for 醫療同意原則：香港實況研討會
Hong Kong

Organised by Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, the 香港大學醫學倫理與法律研究中心及
University of Hong Kong and co-organised by the Academy, 香港醫學專科學院於2025年4月9日聯
the hybrid seminar ‘Medical Consent: Practical Implications 合舉辨線上及線下研討會，討論醫療同
for Hong Kong’ was successfully held on 9 April 2025. This 意原則在香港的實際應用及影響。該研
seminar explored the legal issues arising from consent 討會探討了就醫療程序徵求同意所衍
to medical treatment, including important decisions from 生的法律問題，包括其對普通法及《維
across common law and legislative interventions such as the 持生命治療的預作決定條例》等立法程
Advance Decision on Life-Sustaining Treatment Ordinance, and 序內的重要決定的影響，並檢視了這些
examined the practical application and implications of these 醫療發展於香港執業環境下的實際應
developments for medical practice in Hong Kong. 用和意義。

Webinar on Clinical Negligence Update – An Update in UK 線上研討會－從英國判例法的最新發
Case Law and Expert Evidence 展及專家證據看醫療疏忽
Jointly organised by the Task Force on Laws for Healthcare 醫療人員相關法律專責小組及賽馬會
Practitioners and the Academy’s Jockey Club Institute for 醫學教育發展中心於2025年5月29日聯
Medical Education and Development, a webinar on Clinical 合舉辨醫療疏忽線上研討會，從英國判
Negligence Update – An Update in UK Case Law and Expert 例法的角度出發，探討法例的最新發
Evidence was successfully held on 29 May 2025. This webinar 展以及相關醫療疏忽案件中的專家證
provided an update on UK case law and expert evidence 據。該研討會亦重點討論了近年在處理
in clinical negligence cases, and highlighted recent changes 醫療法律問題上面對的變化和挑戰。
and challenges in handling medico-legal issues. Over 290 當天共有超過290位參加者參與線上研
participants joined the webinar. Positive feedback and useful 討會，並收到了正面的反饋和實用的建
suggestions were received. 議。

Second Edition of Best Practice Guidelines for Expert 專家證人的良好作業指引第二版
Witnesses

The Task Force on Laws for Healthcare Practitioners published 委員會轄下的醫療人員相關法律專責
a set of ‘Best Practice Guidelines for Expert Witnesses’ in 小組於2023年10月發布了一套《專家證
October 2023, with the aim to assist and prepare medical 人的良好作業指引》，旨在透過制定相
doctors and dentists who are partaking, or are considering 關標準和規定並提供實用建議，以協助
to partake, in the role of an expert witness by setting out 正在擔任專家證人或考慮擔任專家證
the relevant standards and regulations and offering practical 人的醫生和牙醫為相關工作做好準備。
advice. To maintain continuous improvement and reflect the 為持續改進並反映有關領域的最新發
latest developments in the field, necessary updates have been 展，專責小組修訂《指引》後於2025年8
made to the Guidelines, and the Second Edition has been 月發布第二版以供參考。
published in August 2025.

41
香港醫學專科學院 2025 年度報告