AQW 46075/11-15

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 20/05/2015
Answered On Date: 02/06/2015
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety for his assessment of the current waiting lists for (i) private care homes; and (ii) Health and Social Care Trust care homes, broken down by Trust area.

Answer:

The Health and Social Care Board has advised me that the Western Trust currently has 21 placement applications for temporary/permanent status in independent nursing/residential homes. These are considered and reviewed by the Trust on a regular basis and available funding allocated to those assessed at greatest need. The Trust has no one on a waiting list for its statutory residential homes.

The Northern Trust has 4 older people who are currently accommodated in intermediate care beds awaiting their nursing home of choice, with no-one on a waiting list for its statutory residential homes.

None of the other Trusts have anyone on a waiting list for either private or Trust care homes.