AQW 35332/22-27


Ms Connie Egan
Alliance Party
North Down


Tabled Date: 12/11/2025
Answered On Date: 02/02/2026
Priority Written: No


Question:
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of patients who receive routine payment for energy costs due to the use of (i) peritoneal dialysis machines in the home; and (ii) haemodialysis treatment in the home, in each year since 2020, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.


Answer:
Peritoneal Dialysis
BHSCT
NHSCT
SEHSCT
SHSCT
WHSCT
2024
27
10
2025
22
Not available
12
15
11
The Trusts started providing payments for peritoneal dialysis in 2024 or 2025 on instruction of DoH. Where appropriate, payments have been backdated. Numbers vary throughout the year due to patient turnover related to transplantation rates, new starts etc. SHSCT and WHSCT have provided a snapshot at a point in time.
Northern Trust have stated that their finance systems do not hold this level of detail and therefore they cannot provide the information.
Home Haemodialysis
BHSCT
NHSCT
SEHSCT
SHSCT
WHSCT
2020
9
7
<5
<5
<5
2021
9
5
<5
<5
5
2022
8
<5
<5
<5
<5
2023
9
<5
0
<5
<5
2024
11
<5
0
<5
<5
2025
11
<5
0
<5
<5
The Home Therapies team in Belfast Trust fund and manage electricity payments for the full region for home haemodialysis. Where numbers are under 5 this has been stated and further detail cannot be provided due to possible identification of patients.
I recognise the importance of this issue and my officials continue to engage with Trusts in progressing standardisation of arrangements and good practice with regards communication and are currently working with the Renal Stakeholder Group to organise a workshop to discuss these issues with charitable and patient representatives.