Albans question to the Health Minister on waiting times for the urology day procedure clinic in Belfast Question: To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety how long patients in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust have to wait for an appointment for the urology day procedure clinic; and, excluding cancer cases, what differentiation is made between routine and urgent urological cases. Answer: The waiting times for day case admission in the Urology specialty in the Belfast Health and Social Care (HSC) Trust, at 31st December 2013, the most recent quarter for which official statistics are available, is outlined in the table below. Patients waiting for day case admission in the Urology specialty, at 31st December 2013, by weeks waiting Length of Time Waiting (weeks) Total Waiting Belfast HSC Trust 0-6 >6-13 >13-21 >21-26 >26-30 >30 1,106 291 274 130 81 379 2,261 Source: DHSSPS Inpatient Waiting Times Dataset The Belfast HSC Trust has advised that all patients are triaged by their consultant on the basis of their clinical need, with urgent and routine patients treated chronologically within their respective category of triage. Waiting time standards differ markedly between the two categories and maximum waiting times would be monitored closely for both groups of patients, with all available resources utilised to achieve the required waiting time standards as far as reasonably practicable.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:40:47 +0000
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