The Department of Health today announced that a preliminary registration arrangement will be implemented at six of its dental clinics offering walk-in emergency dental services to avoid patients queueing overnight as far as practicable.

From September 5, four of these dental clinics will preliminarily register personal information for the patients and verify their identity document starting at midnight on the day of providing general public dental services. Each person can only register once.

The preliminary registration will cease when the number of registered people reach the quota of the general public sessions.

Those who have finished preliminary registration do not need to continue waiting. They can leave the clinic and return at the original disc-distributing time in the morning on the same day to obtain a disc and register formally.

The four clinics are Kennedy Town Community Complex Dental Clinic, Tsuen Wan Dental Clinic, Yan Oi Dental Clinic and Yuen Long Government Offices Dental Clinic.

The other two clinics - Kwun Tong Dental Clinic and Kowloon City Dental Clinic, will arrange preliminary registration from September 14 and 15 respectively.

Notices detailing this arrangement are displayed at conspicuous locations of the clinics. Click here for the addresses and operating times of the relevant dental clinics.

The Department of Health said it will actively review ways to further improve the operation of general public dental services and extend the preliminary registration to the three remaining dental clinics in the urban areas in accordance with the manpower and operational situation.