FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/02488
- Request Date
- June 7, 2018
- Subject
- Elective Waiting List
- Description
- What is the current size of your Elective wait list broken down by specialty in May?
- How many patients from your hospital were discharged to home care settings, i.e. residential care homes/nursing homes etc. in the last 6 months (December – May)?
- Response
1.
Specialty Elective waiting list in May (census date 31st May 2018)
General Surgery 888 Urology 1087 Breast Surgery 147 Colorectal 4 Orthopaedics 1713 ENT 628 Opthalmology 2052 Oral Surgery 642 Cardiac 147 Thoracic 37 Pain Relief 661 Pain Management 150 Gastroenterology 976 Cardiology 903 Dermatology 280 - Patients discharged to a home care setting in the last 6 months*
December January February March April May Total Discharged Patients to home cares 73 62 77 69 79 72 432 *Note that this data is known to be inaccurate as patients who arrived from a care home and discharged back there are normally coded as being discharged to “usual place of residence”.