AQW 241/22-27


Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford


Tabled Date: 19/05/2022
Answered On Date: 01/06/2022
Priority Written: No


Question:
To ask the Minister of Health (i) how many people were supported by day centres in each Health and Social Care Trust during the first quarter of 2022; and (ii) how this compares to the first quarter in (a) 2021; (b) 2020; and (c) 2019.


Answer:
The Department does not hold this information centrally and it was requested from the Health and Social Care Trusts. Please find information detailed below.
Please note that the figures provided from the HSC Trusts are compiled from varying categories of care, and some categories of care are only available for some of the years requested. Belfast HSC Trust and Western HSC Trust provided information for mental health, learning disability, older people’s services and physical and sensory disability categories of care, and Western HSC Trust’s older people’s services information was estimated for 2021 and 2022. Northern HSC Trust provided information for learning disability, and community care (2021 and 2022 only) categories. South Eastern HSC Trust provided adult services information without older people’s services data as this could not be provided, but no further detail on the included categories of care has been provided. Southern HSC Trust did not provide information on the categories of care included in their information.
i) Number of people who were supported by day centres in each Health and Social Care Trust during the first quarter of 2022
Table 1. Number of attendances at / people who attended day centres in each Health and Social Care Trust from January to March 2022
January – March 2022
Number of attendances at day centres1
Belfast
20,686
Western
25,843
Number of people who attended day centres
Northern
9,558
South Eastern2
413
Southern
558
Source: Health and Social Care Trusts
1 Belfast and Western HSC Trusts provided the number of attendances at day centres.
2 Older People’s day centre information could not be included in the South Eastern Trust figures as this would require a manual count.
ii.a.) Number of people who were supported by day centres in each Health and Social Care Trust during the first quarter of 2021
Table 2. Number of attendances at / people who attended day centres in each Health and Social Care Trust from January to March 2021
January – March 2021
Number of attendances at day centres1
Belfast
13,789
Western
20,048
Number of people who attended day centres
Northern
7,047
South Eastern2
276
Southern
470
Source: Health and Social Care Trusts
1 Belfast and Western HSC Trusts provided the number of attendances at day centres.
2 Older People’s day centre information could not be included in the South Eastern Trust figures as this would require a manual count.
ii.b.) Number of people who were supported by day centres in each Health and Social Care Trust during the first quarter of 2020
Table 3. Number of attendances at / people who attended day centres in each Health and Social Care Trust from January to March 2020
January – March 2020
Number of attendances at day centres1
Belfast
41,747
Western
32,760
Number of people who attended day centres
Northern3
809
South Eastern2
525
Southern
866
Source: Health and Social Care Trusts
1 Belfast and Western HSC Trusts provided the number of attendances at day centres.
2 Older People’s day centre information could not be included in the South Eastern Trust figures as this would require a manual count.
3 Northern HSC Trust Community Care Division figures for day centre services are not available for 2019 and 2020 as this information was not collected in this format prior to HSC Rebuild / Reset plans. Northern HSC Trust day centre figures for these two years were provided for learning disability day centre services only.
ii.c.) Number of people who were supported by day centres in each Health and Social Care Trust during the first quarter of 2019
Table 4. Number of attendances at / people who attended day centres in each Health and Social Care Trust from January to March 2019
January – March 2019
Number of attendances at day centres1
Belfast
57,282
Western
40,595
Number of people who attended day centres
Northern3
811
South Eastern2
537
Southern
915
Source: Health and Social Care Trusts
1Belfast and Western HSC Trusts provided the number of attendances at day centres.
2 Older People’s day centre information could not be included in the South Eastern Trust figures as this would require a manual count.
3 Northern HSC Trust Community Care Division figures for day centre services are not available for 2019 and 2020 as this information was not collected in this format prior to HSC Rebuild / Reset plans. Northern HSC Trust day centre figures for these two years were provided for learning disability day centre services only.