AQW 38890/11-15


Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry


Tabled Date: 17/11/2014
Answered On Date: 26/11/2014
Priority Written: No


Question:
To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to detail the number of people in the Northern Health and Social Care Trust in receipt of (i) residential care packages; (ii) meals service care packages, and (iii) home help care packages, in each of the last three years.


Answer:
(i) Information on the number of residential care packages in effect in the Northern Health and Social Care (HSC) Trust at the end of each quarter in the last three years is detailed in Table 1 below.
Table 1
Residential Care Packages in Effect at
31 Dec
2011
31 Mar
2012
30 Jun
2012
30 Sep 2012
31 Dec
2012
31 Mar
2013
30 Jun
2013
30 Sep
2013
31 Dec
2013
31 Mar
2014
30 Jun
2014
30 Sep
2014
961
1,012
1,025
1,012
1,000
969
957
958
960
942
937
939
Source: CC7 community information return
Information on care packages is available on the DHSSPS website at: http://www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/index/statistics/socialcare/residential-nursing-care-packages.htm
(ii) Information is available on the number of persons receiving a meals on wheels service in the Northern HSC Trust at 31 March in each of the last three years, as detailed in Table 2 below.
Table 2
Persons Receiving Meals on Wheels at 31 March 1, 2
2012
2013
2014
696
565
437
Source: KMW2 community information return
1 Figures include services provided by private contractors.
2 Figures include the provision of frozen meals.
This information is published annually in the ‘Statistics on Community Care for Adults in Northern Ireland’ bulletin which can be found on the DHSSPS website at:
http://www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/index/statistics/socialcare/meals-on-wheels.htm
(iii) It is assumed that the term home help in the question relates to domiciliary care. Information is available on the number of persons receiving domiciliary care in the Northern HSC Trust during a survey week in September in each of the last three years, as detailed in Table 3 below.
Table 3
Clients Receiving Domiciliary Care during a survey week in September in
2011
2012
2013
4,231
4,623
4,778
Source: CC7b community information return
This information is published annually in the ‘Domiciliary Care Services for Adults in Northern Ireland’ bulletin which can be found on the DHSSPS website at:
http://www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/index/statistics/socialcare/domiciliary-care.htm
Information relating to the survey week in September 2014 will be published on 12th February 2015.