In the past 12 months (01 January 2025 - 31 December 2025), there were 187,664 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
    43
    84
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Hong Kong West
    Less than
    1
    4
    25
    80
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon Central
    1
    5
    42
    100
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon East
    1
    6
    54
    99
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon West
    1
    5
    51
    100
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • New Territories East
    1
    5
    37
    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
  • 14,013
    31,247
    141,893
  • Percentage
  • 7%
    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