AQW 32527/11-15

Mr Stewart Dickson
Alliance Party
East Antrim

Tabled Date: 31/03/2014
Answered On Date: 09/04/2014
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to detail the doctor to patient ratio in medical and surgical wards at Antrim Area Hospital on (i) weekdays; and (ii) weekends.

Answer:

The Northern Health and Social Care Trust have provided the following response.

There is no formal ratio of patient to doctor calculation in medicine as there is in nursing. On any weekday there are doctors of all grades linked to consultant teams in medicine and surgery working within a rota or job plan either in wards, outpatients or theatre.