AQW 21128/22-27

Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford

Tabled Date: 22/01/2025
Answered On Date: 19/03/2025
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of people registered as a carer as at December 2024, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.

Answer:

A carer is defined as someone who provides regular and substantial care on an informal (unpaid) basis. Health and Social Care Trusts hold a database, the ‘Carer Register’, which is a mailing list of any informal, unpaid carer who has opted for their name and details to be kept on this Register. Carers can request to have their details removed at any time.

These registers are primarily a means of sharing information and advice with carers and for supporting carers through networks and activities. The breakdown for each Trust is noted below to reflect registered numbers in December 2024. Please consider that there will have been some expected fluctuation as carers join and leave the registers and current registered numbers may therefore be different.

BHSCT	5000
NHSCT	2830
SET	3926
WHSCT	3063
SHSCT	3568