Admission Procedures: Emergency Admission through Accident & Emergency Department (AED)

• If hospital admission is needed after assessment by AED medical officer, emergency admission would be arranged.
• Patients must present the original valid identity documents for admission, which includes:
  • For Adult and adolescent (11 years of age or over): HKID Card or Travel Document;
  • For Child (under 11 years of age): HKID Card / HK Birth Certificate or Travel Document;
  • For Infant (less than 42 days but does not have Birth Certificate yet): issued by a Hong Kong Hospital indicating baby is born in Hong Kong; the baby’s parent HKID Card or Travel Document.
• If valid identity documents are not presented, patient will be regarded as non-entitled person (NEP) and be required to pay a deposit on day of admission. In case, valid identity documents are not presented on/before discharge, fill fees will be applied.
• For more information, please refer to the information sheets below:
  • Admission Information
  • Patients' Charter
  • Information Sheet to Patients’ Relatives/Visitors for Handling of Food Brought into Hospital

Remark:

Private Practitioners may refer acute patients to AED. However, hospital admission would depend on the medical conditions of individual patient.