AQW 11948/17-22

Ms Paula Bradshaw
Alliance Party
South Belfast

Tabled Date: 11/12/2020
Answered On Date: 05/02/2021
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the (i) number of people waiting to access drug and alcohol treatment in each Health and Social Care Trust; and (ii) what the wait times were to access treatment in (a) December 2019; and (b) December 2020.

Answer:

(i, ii) The Department does not hold this information centrally and was requested from the Health and Social Care Board (HSCB). The HSCB is only able to provide active wait times for Opiate Substitute Therapy for each Health and Social Care Trust area, at each month end. Detail on the number of people waiting to access other drug and alcohol treatment in each HSC Trust and length of wait times is not collated by the HSCB at this time.

Please find information detailed below.

Table 1. Total Number of active waits for Opiate Substitute Treatment month end December 2019 and November 2020, by HSC Trust

HSC Trust	December 2019	November 2020
Belfast	41	55
Northern	2	2
South Eastern	1	1
Southern	1	2
Western	10	7

Table 2. Total Number of active waits for Opiate Substitute Treatment month end December 2019 and November 2020, for Prison

	December 2019	November 2020
Prison	38	80