New Requirements

The amendments mainly cover the following eight aspects:

1. Strengthening the accountability of RCH operators
2. Enhancing the minimum staffing requirements
3. Increasing the minimum area of floor space per resident
4. Introducing a registration system for home managers
5. Improving the registration system for health workers
6. Enhancing the regulation of medicine administration, use of restraints and protection of residents' dignity and privacy
7. Increasing the penalties for certain offences
8. Abolishing the certificate of exemption regime for residential care homes for the elderly (RCHEs)