Weekly consultation rates of acute conjunctivitis reported by General Out-patient Clinics (GOPC) and Private Medical Practitioner (PMP) Clinics 2024

Week 46 (10/11 – 16/11)
Latest data reported by sentinel PMP clinics showed the consultation rate for acute conjunctivitis was at baseline level.

For the week ending	Rate (per 1000 consultations)
For the week ending	GOPC	PMP clinics
6/1	7.8	1.2
13/1	7.8	2.7
20/1	8.7	1.6
27/1	8.9	4.4
3/2	8.7	4.3
10/2	9.6	2.0
17/2	8.9	2.5
24/2	9.3	2.4
2/3	8.8	5.3
9/3	8.9	2.6
16/3	8.9	4.8
23/3	9.9	3.2
30/3	9.4	3.3
6/4	9.9	2.7
13/4	9.8	3.5
20/4	8.9	1.5
27/4	8.5	1.1
4/5	8.9	1.9
11/5	7.9	2.9
18/5	8.6	3.2
25/5	9.1	2.5
1/6	9.4	2.4
8/6	8.5	3.1
15/6	9.1	1.3
22/6	9.8	4.3
29/6	9.0	4.3
6/7	7.5	4.1
13/7	7.4	1.7
20/7	7.7	2.4
27/7	7.8	2.4
3/8	7.1	3.7
10/8	7.7	2.4
17/8	7.6	1.6
24/8	7.8	1.4
31/8	7.4	2.7
7/9	7.0	1.6
14/9	7.6	1.2
21/9	7.8	0.9
28/9	7.5	0.9
5/10	7.9	0.6
12/10	6.9	2.3
19/10	7.7	1.9
26/10	7.9	2.4
2/11	8.7	2.0
9/11	7.9	1.6
16/11	8.3	0.3
23/11
30/11
7/12
14/12
21/12
28/12

Note:
The CHP has started to use electronic data on diagnosis coding of patients of the Hospital Authority's General Out-patient Clinics for sentinel surveillance since January 2020, replacing manual data collection in the past.