In the past 12 months (01 April 2024 - 31 March 2025), there were 158,746 new case bookings in Medicine 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
    5
    31
    91
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Hong Kong West
    Less than
    1
    4
    29
    77
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon Central
    1
    6
    62
    94
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon East
    1
    6
    49
    91
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon West
    1
    6
    67
    92
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • New Territories East
    1
    6
    50
    86
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • New Territories West
    Less than
    1
    6
    38
    70
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
Number and percentage of new case bookings triaged as2:
Urgent Case
Semi-urgent Case
Stable Case
  • Number
  • 9,875
    26,356
    120,368
  • Percentage
  • 6%
    17%
    76%
(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