AQW 12532/22-27


Ms Connie Egan
Alliance Party
North Down


Tabled Date: 24/05/2024
Answered On Date: 10/06/2024
Priority Written: No


Question:
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of people in the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust who exited a waiting list due to accessing private health care, in each of the last three years.


Answer:
This information is not available centrally in the Department. The South Eastern Trust was asked to provide a response. This is presented in table 1 below.
Table 1. Number of patients who exited a waiting list due to accessing private health care, 2021/2022-2023/2024
Outpatients
Discharges
2021/2022
1064
2022/2023
1155
2023/2024 (to 8/11/23)*
786
Inpatient/Day Case
Removals
2021/2022
257
2022/2023
375
2023/2024 (to 8/11/23)*
210
Source: South Eastern HSC Trust
Figures refer to number of patients who exited the waiting list due to accessing private care in the South Eastern Trust over the last three financial years. Figures are separated into Outpatients and Inpatients/Day Case patients. This information is taken from the patient administration system (PAS) and would be as a result of patient validation.
* Due to the roll out of encompass in South Eastern Trust, figures after 8 November 2023 are not currently available.