AQW 7594/17-22

Mr Stewart Dickson
Alliance Party
East Antrim

Tabled Date: 25/09/2020
Answered On Date: 12/10/2020
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the average waiting time for surgery, broken down by type of procedure.

Answer:

The tabulated information overleaf details the average waiting time in weeks for surgery for the years 2018/19 to 2019/20, the information has been broken down by speciality. (Table A).

Table A: Average waiting times in weeks for surgical procedures 2018/19 to 2019/20p

Speciality	2018/19	2019/20P
General Surgery	21.5	21.8
Urology	14.0	14.5
T&O	40.2	37.6
ENT	21.7	23.2
Ophthalmology	23.7	26.6
Oral Surgery	15.5	13.4
Restorative Dentistry	13.6	19.6
Paediatric Dentistry	27.6	22.0
Neurosurgery	10.2	13.1
Plastic Surgery	15.8	16.2
Cardiac Surgery	14.3	16.6
Paediatric Surgery	23.9	20.2
Pain Management	36.7	36.7
Total	22.3	21.5

Source: Hospital Inpatient System, Hospital Information Branch, Information & Analysis Directorate, Department of Health, NI.

P Data for time period 2019/20 is provisional and subject to change.

1 Figures do not include admissions to mental health or learning disability programmes of care which account for less than 1% of all hospital admissions.