§ Mr. BeggsTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many urology consultants are employed by the Northern Ireland Health Service; and what the average waiting time to see a urology consultant is in each health trust. [137665]
§ Angela SmithThe number of urology consultants employed by Health and Social Services Trusts are given in the following table.
Table 1: Number of urology consultants employed by Health and Social Services Trusts, as at 6 November 2003 HSS1 Trust Headcount WTE2 Altnagelvin Group HSS Trust 2 1.91 Armagh and Dungannon HSS Trust 0 0.00 Belfast City Hospital HSS Trust 6 4.82 Causeway HSS Trust 30 0.00 Craigavon and Banbridge Community HSS Trust 0 0.00 craigavon Area Hospital Group HSS Trust 2 2.00 Down Lisburn HSS Trust 41 n\a Foyle Community HSS Trust 0 0.00 Green Park Healthcare Hss Trust 0 0.00 Homefirst Community HSS Trust 0 0.00 Mater Infirmorum Hospital HSS Trust 1 1.00
Table 2: Percentage of patients waiting for a first out-patient appointment with a urology consultant in Northern Ireland, at 30 June 2003 Time waiting(Months)(Percentage) Provider Trust 0–2 3–11 12–17 18–23 24+ Total The Royal Group of Hospital HSS Trust 50.0 50.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 92 Belfast City Hospital HSS Trust 40.2 56.0 3.1 0.6 0.1 1,264 Ulster Community and Hospitals HSS Trust 91.7 8.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 144 Down and Lisburn HSS Trust 16.4 14.2 33.2 31.0 5.2 232 Mater Infirmorum HSS Trust 30.9 63.5 3.6 1.4 0.6 644 Causeway HSS Trust 18.0 30.9 17.8 10.5 22.8 916 Craigavon Area Hospital HSS Trust 17.1 31.6 16.6 10.2 24.6 1,182 Altnagelvin Area Hospital HSS Trust 25.3 53.0 15.2 5.6 0.9 1,091 Northern Ireland 28.1 43.9 11.9 6.6 9.5 5,565 Source:
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Table 1: Number of urology consultants employed by Health and Social Services Trusts, as at 6 November 2003 HSS1Trust Headcount WTE2 Newry and Mourne HSS Trust 0 0.00 North and West Belfast HSS Trust 0 0.00 Royal Group of Hospitals HSS Trust 50 0.00 South and East Belfast HSS Trust 0 0.00 Sperrin Lakeland HSS Trust 0 0.00 Ulster Community and Hospitals Group HSS Trust 2 1.40 United Hospitals Group HSS Trust 63 n/a Total 17 n/a 1 Health and Social Services. 2 Whole-time Equivalent. 3 Causeway HSS Trust has a urology service level agreement with Belfast City Hospital—the consultant who works in Causeway HSS Trust is employed by Belfast City Hospital Trust. 4 Within Down Lisburn HSS Trust the consultant within General Surgery performs operations within Urology—the whole-time equivalent cannot be defined as it varies. 5 There are no consultants employed in the area of urology by Royal Group of Hospitals HSS Trust—0.45 WTE is provided to the Royal Group of Hospitals HSS Trust by Belfast City Hospital HSS Trust. 6 United Hospitals Group HSS Trust—There are three general surgery consultants who provide some sessional commitment in the area of urology—any activity is recorded under general surgery and not urology. Note:
Information on waiting lists and waiting times is collected on the basis of time bands. It is not possible to derive an average from this information.
Source:
Human Resource Management System