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AQW 32527/11-15 Written question to the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to detail the doctor to patient ratio in medical and surgical wards at Antrim Area Hospital on (i) weekdays; and (ii) weekends.

Asked by Stewart Dickson MLA on 31 March 2014

  • Answered
  • Written
Tabled
31 March 2014
Answer due by
15 April 2014
Answered
9 April 20149 days after tabling
Department
Department of Health
Priority question
No

Answer

The Northern Health and Social Care Trust have provided the following response.

There is no formal ratio of patient to doctor calculation in medicine as there is in nursing. On any weekday there are doctors of all grades linked to consultant teams in medicine and surgery working within a rota or job plan either in wards, outpatients or theatre.

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