In the past 12 months (01 January 2025 - 31 December 2025), there were 162,178 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
    32
    92
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Hong Kong West
    Less than
    1
    4
    27
    65
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon Central
    1
    6
    70
    95
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon East
    1
    5
    48
    92
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon West
    1
    6
    60
    90
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • New Territories East
    1
    6
    48
    88
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • New Territories West
    Less than
    1
    6
    44
    65
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
Number and percentage of new case bookings triaged as2:
Urgent Case
Semi-urgent Case
Stable Case
  • Number
  • 9,812
    27,475
    123,019
  • Percentage
  • 6%
    17%
    76%
(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