Written Answers to Questions - Northern Ireland Assembly

Friday 20 July 2012 Written Answers
Hospital 2 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12
Armagh 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Mullinure 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Altnagelvin Area 20.2% 20.8% 21.4%
Erne 15.5% 16.6% 15.9%
Tyrone County 3.4% 3.4% 2.2%
Source: Hospital Inpatient System and EC1 information return.
1 Deaths and discharges are used as an approximation of admissions therefore patients who have been
admitted from emergency care but not yet discharged will not be included.
2 Patients attending emergency care units may not always be admitted to the same hospital.
Ratio of Medical Admissions to Medical Beds
Mr Dunne asked the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety what was the ratio of medical
admissions to medical beds at each hospital, in each of the last three years.
(AQW 13703/11-15)
Mr Poots: Information on the ratio of medical admissions to medical beds at each hospital, in each of
the last three years, is given in the table below.
Hospital 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11
Altnagelvin 44.9 46.1 50.4
Antrim 49.9 51.0 53.0
Ards 26.6 22.1 22.4
Bangor 29.1 25.7 25.3
Belfast City 37.9 38.6 39.0
Braid Valley 15.7 16.8 13.3
Cancer Centre 44.1 44.3 43.0
Causeway 38.7 38.9 41.4
Craigavon 67.5 65.8 68.2
Daisy Hill 55.0 55.4 59.9
Dalriada 14.3 12.6 12.4
Downe 71.5 63.1 62.3
Erne 49.2 56.0 61.7
Forster Green 14.5 14.0 16.1
Lagan Valley 56.7 56.0 58.3
Lurgan 13.2 6.6 7.8
Mater 43.1 42.0 44.5
Mid Ulster 31.4 28.9 14.6
Moyle 7.5 6.7 10.5
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