AQW 21768/17-22 Written question to the Minister of Health
To ask the Minister of Health how many people benefited from pulmonary rehabilitation in the financial year 2019/20, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
Asked by Paula Bradshaw MLA on 9 July 2021
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 9 July 2021
- Answer due by
- 28 July 2021
- Answered
- 22 July 202113 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
Answer
The department collects information on the number of people who attend pulmonary rehabilitation programmes in each Health and Social Care Trust, in the annual report on “Patient education / self management programmes for people with long term conditions.”. The number of people who attended a pulmonary rehabilitation programme, between 1st April 2019 and 31st March 2020, is presented in Table 1.
Table 1: The number of people who attended a Pulmonary Rehabilitation programme in each Health and Social Care Trust (HSCT) between 1st April 2019 and 31st March 2020
| HSC Trust | Participant numbers |
| Belfast HSCT1 | 428 |
| Northern HSCT | 284 |
| South Eastern HSCT | 477 |
| Southern HSCT | 269 |
| Western HSCT | 357 |
Source: Patient Education / Self Management Programmes Questionnaire 2019/20 submitted by each HSCT.
1 Belfast HSCT did not submit a 2019/20 return for this publication so figures were requested from the Belfast HSCT.