In the past 12 months (01 January 2023 - 31 December 2023), there were 189,230 new case bookings in Surgery Specialist Out-patient Clinics, with waiting time as follows:
Urgent Case (Median)
Semi-urgent Case (Median)
Stable Case (Median)
Stable Case (Longest)1
  • Hong Kong East
    1
    7
    44
    84
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Hong Kong West
    Less than
    1
    5
    16
    68
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon Central
    1
    5
    34
    111
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon East
    1
    6
    58
    109
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon West
    1
    5
    53
    98
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • New Territories East
    1
    5
    30
    84
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • New Territories West
    1
    5
    39
    90
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
Number and percentage of new case bookings triaged as2:
Urgent Case
Semi-urgent Case
Stable Case
  • Number
  • 14,084
    31,753
    142,730
  • Percentage
  • 7%
    17%
    75%
(For reference only)
Date of Next Update: 30 April 2024

Notes:
(1) The longest (90th percentile) waiting time implies that appointments are earlier than the indicated time in 90% of the new case bookings
(2) Excluding cases pending for triage
(3) With effect from 1 October 2022, the waiting time for new case booking at Specialist Out-patient Clinics has incorporated integrated clinics