AQW 11496/17-22 Written question to the Minister of Health
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the average caseload currently held by members of the district nursing workforce, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
Asked by Paula Bradshaw MLA on 3 December 2020
- Answered
- Written
- After due date
- Tabled
- 3 December 2020
- Answer due by
- 18 December 2020
- Answered
- 23 December 202020 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
Answer
The District Nurse is the caseload holder of all the patients and is supported by community staff nurses and senior healthcare assistants to provide a district nursing service. The table below shows the total caseload size per Trust, the number of district nursing caseloads and the average caseload size per HSC Trust.
| HSC Trust | Total number of people admitted to the District Nursing Caseload | No of District Nursing Caseloads | Average caseload size (i.e. people admitted to the caseload) |
| BHSCT | 4146 | 53 | 78 |
| NHSCT | 6075 | 37 | 164 |
| SEHSCT | 7394* | 41 | 180 |
| SHSCT | 5668 | 59 | 96 |
| WHSCT | 4216 | 33 | 131 |
* District nursing caseloads in all HSC Trusts will include people who require continence management. The numbers are much higher in South Eastern Trust due to the continence service delivery model, accounting for approximately 3000 patients (April 2019 data).
These figures exclude people who require one–off visits as they are not admitted to the caseload.