AQW 21768/17-22


Ms Paula Bradshaw
Alliance Party
South Belfast


Tabled Date: 09/07/2021
Answered On Date: 22/07/2021
Priority Written: No


Question:
To ask the Minister of Health how many people benefited from pulmonary rehabilitation in the financial year 2019/20, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.


Answer:
The department collects information on the number of people who attend pulmonary rehabilitation programmes in each Health and Social Care Trust, in the annual report on “Patient education / self management programmes for people with long term conditions.”. The number of people who attended a pulmonary rehabilitation programme, between 1st April 2019 and 31st March 2020, is presented in Table 1.
Table 1: The number of people who attended a Pulmonary Rehabilitation programme in each Health and Social Care Trust (HSCT) between 1st April 2019 and 31st March 2020
HSC Trust
Participant numbers
Belfast HSCT1
428
Northern HSCT
284
South Eastern HSCT
477
Southern HSCT
269
Western HSCT
357
Source: Patient Education / Self Management Programmes Questionnaire 2019/20 submitted by each HSCT.
1 Belfast HSCT did not submit a 2019/20 return for this publication so figures were requested from the Belfast HSCT.