AQW 220/17-22 Written question to the Minister of Health
To ask the Minister of Health to outline the cost of addressing waiting lists to ensure the commitment in New Decade, New Approach of no one waiting over a year at 30 September 2019 for outpatient or inpatient assessment/treatment will still be on a waiting list by March 2021.
Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 14 January 2020
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 14 January 2020
- Answer due by
- 29 January 2020
- Answered
- 29 January 202015 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
Answer
The cost of delivering the additional activity necessary to ensure that no one waiting over a year at 30 September 2019 for an outpatient assessment or treatment will still be on a waiting list by March 2021 is approximately £50m.