In the past 12 months (01 October 2024 - 30 September 2025), there were 187,743 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
    41
    83
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Hong Kong West
    Less than
    1
    4
    24
    77
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon Central
    1
    5
    41
    100
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon East
    1
    6
    58
    99
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon West
    1
    5
    51
    99
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • New Territories East
    1
    5
    35
    92
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • New Territories West
    1
    5
    35
    66
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
Number and percentage of new case bookings triaged as2:
Urgent Case
Semi-urgent Case
Stable Case
  • Number
  • 13,941
    30,614
    142,674
  • Percentage
  • 7%
    16%
    76%
(For reference only)
Date of Next Update: 30 January 2026

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