AQW 2783/22-27 Written question to the Minister of Health
To ask the Minister of Health how many and what percentage of (i) children; and (ii) adults with cystic fibrosis saw (a) a clinical psychologist; and (b) a social worker during the last 12 months and in each year since 2015.
Asked by Peter McReynolds MLA on 5 September 2022
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 5 September 2022
- Answer due by
- 21 September 2022
- Answered
- 15 September 202210 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
Answer
This information is not held centrally so the information was requested from Belfast Health and Social Care (HSC) Trust as Belfast Trust provides a Regional Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Service.
Belfast HSC Trust advised that most of the information requested can only be obtained through a manual trawl through hundreds of files and could therefore only be supplied at disproportionate cost. The total number of individuals with cystic fibrosis was only available for children seen by a social worker for two years, therefore percentages could only be provided for these years.
The information available is provided in the table below.
Table 1. The number of (i) children; and (ii) adults with cystic fibrosis saw (a) a clinical psychologist; and (b) a social worker from 2014/15 - August 2022, in Northern Ireland (Belfast HSC Trust regional service).
| Year | ia) Number of children with cystic fibrosis seen by a clinical psychologist | ib) Number of children with cystic fibrosis seen by a social worker | ic) Number of adults with cystic fibrosis seen by a clinical psychologist | id) Number of adults with cystic fibrosis seen by a social worker |
| 2014/15 to 2019/20 | - | - | - | - |
| 2020/21 | - | 71 (33%) | - | - |
| 2021/22 | - | 106 (53%) | 18* | - |
| 1 Sept 2021 – 31 August 2022 | - | - | 101^ | - |
Source: Belfast Health & Social Care Trust
‘-‘ indicates data not available
* This figure represents individuals in the Psychology Transition Service between the Paediatric cystic fibrosis Unit and the Adult cystic fibrosis Unit.
^ Includes 15 individuals in the Psychology Transition Service. Information was only available from October 2021-August 2022.