Kai Tak Hospital will begin its first phase of clinical services on 5 October, opening a family-medicine centre and allied-health services before the wider hospital comes into operation. The opening marks the start of a gradual transfer of care from Queen Elizabeth Hospital to the new facility.
The family-medicine centre is on the first floor of the specialist outpatient building. Patients seeking treatment for episodic illnesses can book from the morning of 4 October through the Hospital Authority’s HA Go app, using its family-medicine booking function, or through the telephone booking system.
Hospital management said all 350 family-medicine appointments allocated for the first day had been filled. It plans to increase the number gradually once the service is running smoothly. New specialist outpatient appointments follow a different route: patients need a referral letter or a Hospital Authority referral QR code, which can be submitted through the appointment function in HA Go.
Specialist outpatient services will begin moving from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in batches from late October. The first scheduled transfers include surgical, neurosurgical and clinical-oncology clinics. Separately, blood collection and specimen collection, along with CT, ultrasound and X-ray examinations, are due to open during the same period. November plans include internal-medicine and obstetrics and gynaecology services, oncology day treatment and MRI examinations.
Kai Tak Hospital chief executive Eric Cheung said the staged approach was intended to minimise operational problems and protect patient services during Hong Kong’s largest hospital-relocation project. The first phase covers the specialist outpatient and oncology buildings, while the second phase is expected in 2028 and will include the accident-and-emergency, administrative, and education-and-training buildings.
The hospital area is served by 10 franchised bus routes and six minibus routes. From 5 October, a rehabilitation-bus service will run between the hospital area and Kai Tak and Lok Fu stations, while Citybus is introducing route and stop changes as more services open.
When fully developed, Kai Tak Hospital is planned to have 2,400 beds and 37 operating rooms, serving more than 1.8 million people across Yau Tsim Mong, Kowloon City, Wong Tai Sin and Kwun Tong.