Elective Cataract Surgery


The choice and the timing of the surgery are worked out together by the patient and doctor after the evaluation of the clinical conditions. Patients are treated based on the seriousness of their illness and not only in the order of when they were added to the list.

As at 30 June 2024, there were 69,438 cataract surgery bookings in Eye Specialty with the waitlist per cluster as follows:

Cluster Hong Kong East Hong Kong West Kowloon Central Kowloon East Kowloon West New Territories East New Territories West
Waitlist
8,570
3,369
12,388
10,075
12,648
10,089
12,299

The waiting time for patients with cataract surgeries performed in the past 12 months (1 Jul 2023 – 30 Jun 2024) was as follows :

Cluster Hong Kong East Hong Kong West Kowloon Central Kowloon East Kowloon West New Territories East New Territories West
Number of Surgery Performed
3,407
3,135
6,415
3,169
2,822
4,650
3,611
Median Waiting Time* (month)
19
10
31
24
14
12
13
90th Percentile Waiting Time* (month)
40
17
36
29
53
26
56

(For reference only)
Date of Next Update: 31 October 2024

* The median and 90th percentile waiting time implies that half and 90% of the patients with surgeries performed could receive surgeries earlier than the indicated waiting time respectively.