The Hospital Authority announced today (30th) the waiting time for specialist outpatient clinics from July last year to June this year.
The Kowloon Central Network has the longest waiting time for stable new cases of ophthalmology, with a median of two and a half years. The longest waiting time of the Kowloon Central Otorhinolaryngology Department and the Kowloon East Internal Medicine Department is close to 3 years, the highest among all networks.
In addition, the Chief Administrative Manager (Quality and Standards) of the Hospital Authority, Liu Jiaxian, said that starting from the third quarter of this year, the internal medicine and orthopedics "co-treatment" model will be introduced in stages to refer stable patients to the community's primary medical doctors.
Eligible patients include patients with diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. They can seek consultation with primary-level medical doctors at the price of a general outpatient clinic, and they are entitled to 10 follow-up consultations each year.
The Hospital Authority announced today (30th) the waiting time for specialist outpatient clinics from July last year to June this year.
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Central Kowloon has the longest waiting time for stable new cases of ophthalmology, with a median of 129 weeks, or 2.4 years. The median waiting time for ENT in Kowloon East and Kowloon West, and internal medicine in Kowloon West and New Territories East is also 88. Weeks, which is 1.6 years.
The longest waiting time for the ear, nose and throat department in Kowloon Central is 154 weeks, and the longest waiting time for the internal medicine department in Kowloon East is also 151 weeks, which is nearly 3 years.
Median waiting time for psychiatric services in Hong Kong West Network is 50 weeks
The Chief Administrative Manager (Quality and Standards) of the Hospital Authority, Liu Jiaxian, said that the waiting time for this season's update is roughly the same as the last one. Some specialties have improved, including New Territories West Internal Medicine, Hong Kong Island East and Kowloon Middle Otolaryngology.
He said that some networked specialist clinics use a special remuneration plan to increase the number of evening and weekend sessions, and the service has been more than before the epidemic.
The waiting time for stable new cases of psychiatric clinics in Hong Kong West, Kowloon East and New Territories West has all increased significantly. Among them, the Hong Kong Island West Network has soared by 24 weeks, and the median waiting time is as long as 50 weeks.
The waiting time for stable new ophthalmology cases in New Territories East and New Territories West also increased by more than 10 weeks, with a median of 47 weeks and 31 weeks respectively.
Liu Jiaxian explained that during the outbreak of the epidemic, the Hospital Authority adjusted some of its services, and some patients "did off" to see the doctor as scheduled. Recently, the epidemic has gradually come under control, and many patients have made appointments for a new period, resulting in an increase in waiting time.
He also said that the waiting time for different networks is affected by factors such as population, age distribution, and doctor's resignation, emphasizing that patients can freely choose any network to see the doctor.
Liu Jiaxian, Chief Administrative Manager (Quality and Standards) of the Hospital Authority.
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Liu Jiaxian said frankly that the waiting time for the otolaryngology department is relatively long and the situation is not ideal.
The Hospital Authority then set up "ENT Specialist Polyclinics" in Hong Kong Island West, Kowloon West and New Territories East Cluster last year to screen patients over 60 years of age with hearing problems.
After being referred, patients need to go to the clinic for physical examination and hearing tests. If hearing problems are found due to physical deterioration, they can be directly equipped with hearing aids, and they only need to wait a few weeks.
Nurses, physiotherapists and audiologists can provide immediate assistance, that is, stable patients do not necessarily need to see a doctor, unless in a more urgent situation.
The three networked "ENT specialist polyclinics" have seen more than 3,000 new patients in six months. Liu Jiaxian believes that the clinics have shortened the overall waiting time by several weeks.
The clinics in the Hong Kong Island East and Kowloon East Cluster will be put into service in October this year, and the clinics in the Kowloon Central and New Territories West Cluster will also be opened next year.
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Patients who are referred to internal medicine can enjoy 10 follow-up consultations per year
In addition, the Hospital Authority will launch a "co-treatment" model in the third quarter of this year to refer stable patients to the community's primary medical doctors in order to shorten the waiting time for new specialist cases.
Liu Jiaxian revealed that referrals to internal medicine patients will begin in the third quarter, and orthopedic patients will begin in the fourth quarter; they can consult more than 600 primary-level medical doctors at the price of general outpatient clinics, and enjoy 10 follow-up visits a year.
Eligible medical patients include patients with diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia, etc.; and eligible orthopedic patients are mainly degenerative pain.
Liu Jiaxian emphasized that this model can help improve the doctor-patient relationship. Primary medical doctors can contact public hospital doctors for advice at any time; if the patient's condition deteriorates.
It can be referred back to the Hospital Authority for follow-up consultation as an old disease.
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