In the past 12 months (01 April 2025 - 31 March 2026), there were 187,407 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
    86
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Hong Kong West
    Less than
    1
    4
    27
    83
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon Central
    1
    5
    42
    99
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon East
    1
    6
    52
    99
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon West
    1
    5
    51
    101
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • New Territories East
    Less than
    1
    5
    38
    93
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • New Territories West
    1
    5
    38
    65
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
Number and percentage of new case bookings triaged as2:
Urgent Case
Semi-urgent Case
Stable Case
  • Number
  • 13,795
    31,922
    141,137
  • Percentage
  • 7%
    17%
    75%
(For reference only)
Date of Next Update: 31 July 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) The information on this page is based on the old clustering arrangement. The Hong Kong East Cluster and the Hong Kong West Cluster have officially been integrated to establish the Hong Kong Island Cluster from 1 April 2026. The information will be updated in due course.