National Forum on Safety and Quality in Health Care Conference

Professor Jan Vesseur

Jan Vesseur (1952) graduated from medical school at Leiden University in 1977. He worked as a resident in surgery and began the special training for being a general practitioner. From 1980 till 1993 he had his own practice as a general practitioner in a health care centre in Rotterdam. During this period he chaired the association of general practitioners in Rotterdam and helped in the development of a electronic patient record for the GP. In 1993 he became an inspector. After several functions within the Dutch Health Care Inspectorate he became the project-chief inspector for patient safety, health IT and international affairs in 2005. He is member of the board of the European Partnership of Supervising Organizations in Health Care and Social Services (EPSO), an informal network of supervising bodies in health care in Europe.

Ms Sandra Lee

Permanent Secretary for Health
Food and Health Bureau, Government Secretariat
of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Ms Lee joined the Hong Kong Government in 1974 and was appointed to the Administrative Service in 1979.  She was promoted to her present rank of Administrative Officer Staff Grade A1 in 2002.

Over the years, Ms Lee has worked in a number of policy and resource bureaux, departments and overseas offices.

More recently Ms Lee was Permanent Secretary for Economic Development from 2002 to 2006, and Permanent Secretary for Health and Welfare from May 2006 to June 2007.

As Permanent Secretary for Health, Ms Lee’s portfolio covers policies on medical and health services, health care financing, development of primary health care and public Chinese medicine outpatient services, health promotion and prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases, anti-smoking and tobacco control etc.  She oversees the co‑ordination of Government’s response to major health incidents and disease outbreaks.  She is a member of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority Board and oversees the work of the Department of Health.