In the past 12 months (01 October 2025 - 30 September 2026), there were 149,905 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
    7
    25
    56
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Hong Kong West
    Less than
    1
    6
    34
    40
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon Central
    Less than
    1
    4
    62
    67
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon East
    Less than
    1
    6
    36
    99
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon West
    Less than
    1
    6
    42
    97
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • New Territories East
    Less than
    1
    6
    65
    106
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • New Territories West
    Less than
    1
    4
    31
    71
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
Number and percentage of new case bookings triaged as2:
Urgent Case
Semi-urgent Case
Stable Case
  • Number
  • 43,400
    30,973
    75,527
  • Percentage
  • 29%
    21%
    50%
(For reference only)
Date of Next Update: 29 January 2027

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.

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.