AQW 20162/17-22


Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry


Tabled Date: 09/06/2021
Answered On Date: 01/07/2021
Priority Written: No


Question:
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of occasions, and the total cost to each Health and Social Care Trust, of employing private paramedic or ambulance services, for each of the last five years.


Answer:
The total spend by each Health and Social Care Trust of employing private paramedic or ambulance services, in each of the last five is set out in the table below.
2020/21
£’000
2019/20
£’000
2018/19 £’000
2017/18 £’000
2016/17 £’000
BHSCT
66
30
46
294
572
NHSCT
328
363
375
346
669
SEHCT
2,063
1,545
1,212
954
878
SHSCT
431
316
337
268
118
WHSCT
419
224
318
291
232
NIAS
10,146
5,244
3,267
2,638
1,084
Total
13,453
7,722
5,555
4,791
3,553
*Please note that the use of private ambulance has been interpreted to include the use of independent ambulance providers to support non-emergency transportation of patients within the emergency and non-emergency environments.
Unfortunately, details on the number of occasions can only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The decrease in expenditure by BHSCT since 2017/18 is explained by the fact that NIAS has taken on the co-ordination of sub-contracting their service.