AQW 20701/22-27

Mr Danny Donnelly
Alliance Party
East Antrim

Tabled Date: 16/01/2025
Answered On Date: 31/01/2025
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of Northern Ireland Ambulance Service paramedics that have retired or left the service in each of the last five years.

Answer:

The number of members of staff who were graded as paramedics that left the NI Ambulance Service (NIAS) is included in the table below for each of the last five financial years. (Data for 2023/24 is included up to June 2024.)

Table 1 – No. of Paramedics that left NIAS from 2019/20 – 2023/24

Year	No. of Staff
2019/20	12
2020/21	7
2021/22	11
2022/23	13
2023/24 (up to June 2024)	17

The information includes all members of staff graded as a Paramedic, RRV (rapid response vehicle) Paramedic or HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service) Advanced Paramedic. It excludes any NIAS Paramedic who moved to a new role within NIAS.