In the past 12 months (01 April 2024 - 31 March 2025), there were 104,900 new case bookings in Ear, Nose, Throat 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
    Less than
    1
    5
    25
    54
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Hong Kong West
    Less than
    1
    7
    41
    52
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon Central
    Less than
    1
    4
    38
    72
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon East
    Less than
    1
    5
    80
    81
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon West
    Less than
    1
    5
    39
    80
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • New Territories East
    Less than
    1
    5
    32
    75
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • New Territories West
    Less than
    1
    5
    51
    54
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
Number and percentage of new case bookings triaged as2:
Urgent Case
Semi-urgent Case
Stable Case
  • Number
  • 15,228
    18,066
    71,590
  • Percentage
  • 15%
    17%
    68%
(For reference only)
Date of Next Update: 31 July 2025

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