NOTICE PAPER NO. 2754
NOTICE OF QUESTION FOR ORAL ANSWER
FOR THE SITTING OF PARLIAMENT ON 7 MAY 2024
Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament
Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang
MP for Nee Soon GRC
Question No. 6005
To ask the Minister for Health whether the Ministry will consider extending the Award for Nurses’ Grace, Excellence and Loyalty (ANGEL) scheme which is a retention scheme to attract and encourage nurses to build a lifelong career in the public healthcare system, to nurses from private hospitals.
Answer
1 There are no plans to extend the ANGEL scheme to nurses working in the private sector.
2 The ANGEL scheme is designed to encourage nurses to stay and build their careers in the public healthcare institutions and publicly-funded community care organisations. Private hospitals are welcomed to implement their own retention scheme through self-funding, bearing in mind these are unsubsidized and typically commercially-run hospitals. Private hospitals have their own remuneration practices to reward and recognise their nurses.