Secretary for Food & Health Dr York Chow will lead a delegation to the UK and Germany to inspect their children's hospitals and neuroscience institutes. He will also attend the 61st World Health Assembly in Switzerland.

In London May 14 Dr Chow will visit the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. He will then visit the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery and meet the hospital management.

The next day he will visit the International Neuroscience Institute and Hanover Children's Hospital in Hanover before heading to the Centre of Clinical Neuroscience Institute in Frankfurt.

He will attend the World Health Organisation's 61st World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 19 and return to Hong Kong the next day.