In the past 12 months (01 October 2025 - 30 September 2026), there were 187,761 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
    37
    85
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Hong Kong West
    1
    5
    28
    78
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon Central
    1
    5
    43
    94
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon East
    1
    6
    43
    88
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • Kowloon West
    1
    5
    32
    98
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • New Territories East
    1
    5
    39
    82
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
  • New Territories West
    1
    5
    34
    56
    week
    weeks
    weeks
    weeks
Number and percentage of new case bookings triaged as2:
Urgent Case
Semi-urgent Case
Stable Case
  • Number
  • 13,185
    35,882
    138,055
  • Percentage
  • 7%
    19%
    74%
(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.