In the past 12 months (01 January 2025 - 31 December 2025), there were 152,039 new case bookings in Eye 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
    29
    74
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Hong Kong West
    1
    6
    54
    61
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon Central
    Less than
    1
    3
    26
    91
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon East
    Less than
    1
    4
    58
    101
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon West
    Less than
    1
    7
    47
    102
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • New Territories East
    Less than
    1
    5
    61
    117
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • New Territories West
    Less than
    1
    3
    61
    84
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
Number and percentage of new case bookings triaged as2:
Urgent Case
Semi-urgent Case
Stable Case
  • Number
  • 47,144
    29,245
    75,637
  • Percentage
  • 31%
    19%
    50%
(For reference only)
Date of Next Update: 30 April 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

Due to recent surge of new referrals, Hong Kong Eye Hospital (HKEH) in Kowloon Central Cluster needs to focus resources and manpower on urgent patients of the Priority 1 and Priority 2 categories. Starting from 3 January 2022, HKEH will suspend booking of appointments for stable patients catogorised as routine new cases from other Clusters, until further notice. Patients could make appointments with SOPCs in Clusters according to the residential addresses.