AQW 43733/11-15 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 expenditure on private ambulances in each Health and Social Care Trust in the last five years.
Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 16 March 2015
- Answered
- Written
- After due date
- Tabled
- 16 March 2015
- Answer due by
- 1 April 2015
- Answered
- 9 April 201524 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
Answer
Expenditure on private ambulances in each Health and Social Care Trust in each of the last five years is set out in the table below. The increase in expenditure reflects increases in hospital admissions, attendances, transfers and discharges.
| Health & Social Care Trust | 2013/14 £k | 2012/13 £k | 2011/12 £k | 2010/11 £k | 2009/10 £k |
| Belfast | 290 | 252 | 158 | 126 | 152 |
| Northern | 125 | 77 | 22 | 26 | 12 |
| South Eastern | 555 | 755 | 403 | 292 | 264 |
| Southern | 31 | 38 | 31 | 7 | 8 |
| Western | 215 | 62 | 35 | 8 | 12 |
| NI Ambulance Service | 18 | 34 | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| Total | 1,234 | 1,218 | 651 | 465 | 459 |