AQW 7594/17-22 Written question to the Minister of Health
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the average waiting time for surgery, broken down by type of procedure.
Asked by Stewart Dickson MLA on 25 September 2020
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 25 September 2020
- Answer due by
- 12 October 2020
- Answered
- 12 October 202017 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
Answer
The tabulated information overleaf details the average waiting time in weeks for surgery for the years 2018/19 to 2019/20, the information has been broken down by speciality. (Table A).
Table A: Average waiting times in weeks for surgical procedures 2018/19 to 2019/20p
| Speciality | 2018/19 | 2019/20P |
| General Surgery | 21.5 | 21.8 |
| Urology | 14.0 | 14.5 |
| T&O | 40.2 | 37.6 |
| ENT | 21.7 | 23.2 |
| Ophthalmology | 23.7 | 26.6 |
| Oral Surgery | 15.5 | 13.4 |
| Restorative Dentistry | 13.6 | 19.6 |
| Paediatric Dentistry | 27.6 | 22.0 |
| Neurosurgery | 10.2 | 13.1 |
| Plastic Surgery | 15.8 | 16.2 |
| Cardiac Surgery | 14.3 | 16.6 |
| Paediatric Surgery | 23.9 | 20.2 |
| Pain Management | 36.7 | 36.7 |
| Total | 22.3 | 21.5 |
| Source: Hospital Inpatient System, Hospital Information Branch, Information & Analysis Directorate, Department of Health, NI. |
| P Data for time period 2019/20 is provisional and subject to change. |
| 1 Figures do not include admissions to mental health or learning disability programmes of care which account for less than 1% of all hospital admissions. |