Queen Mary Hospital will become the only liver transplant centre in Hong Kong, with all patients going on a central waiting list.
An independent taskforce headed by Andrew Yip Wai-chun, a consultant urologist at Kwong Wah Hospital and vice-chairman of the Hospital Authority's central co-ordinating committee in surgery, has been appointed to compile the single waiting list.
The list will apply to both teaching hospitals - Queen Mary which is attached to the University of Hong Kong and Prince of Wales which is associated with Chinese University.
A set of standardised criteria will be set out to determine the priority of patients receiving transplants but Prince of Wales Hospital will not be allowed to carry out operations under the new policy.
The announcement came five months after the South China Morning Post revealed how a liver was wasted in June due to a lack of resources at Prince of Wales Hospital which had been subject to a cap on the number of transplants carried out there.
Albert Chui Ka-keung from Chinese University, who disclosed the scandal, recently protested after some of his clinical duties were removed.