AQW 51121/22-27

Mr Eóin Tennyson
Alliance Party
Upper Bann

Tabled Date: 07/09/2026
Answered On Date: 27/09/2026
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health whether there are any plans to increase assessment capacity and improve access to ADHD services.

Answer:

Waiting time data within Health and Social Care (HSC) services are routinely collected and reported based on clinical priority classifications, namely red flag, urgent and routine referrals. My Department does not routinely collect data by presenting symptom or condition and, therefore, information is not separately categorised for patients referred with non-urgent breast pain.

This approach supports consistent waiting time reporting across a wide range of outpatient specialties and referral pathways. As non-urgent breast pain referrals are managed within routine outpatient pathways, there has been no separate requirement to establish a distinct waiting time dataset for this patient group.

Consequently, my Department does not routinely hold validated waiting time information specifically relating to non-urgent breast pain clinics.