AQW 53442/11-16

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 26/01/2016
Answered On Date: 11/02/2016
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to detail the number of people waiting to receive domiciliary care packages in the (i) Northern Health and Social Care Trust; and (ii) Western Health and Social Care Trust.

Answer:

Information on the number of domiciliary care packages delivered, by time waiting from completion of assessment to commencement of package and Health and Social Care (HSC) Trust is collected by my Department and can be found in Table 1.

Table 1. Domiciliary care packages delivered by time waiting from completion of assessment to commencement of package during quarter ending December 2015.

HSC Trust	Time from end of assessment to delivery of care						Total
	Under 1 Week	1 - 3 Weeks	3 - 5 Weeks	5 - 8 Weeks	8 - 12 Weeks	12 Weeks or more
Northern	116	233	24	11	17	17	418
Western	51	6	0	0	0	0	57

Source: CC5 Community Information Return