AQW 43552/22-27 Written question to the Minister of Health
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of private patients in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust who have used insurance or self-funding mechanisms to have a private procedure in the HSC Cardiac Catheterisation Labs in the 2025-26 financial year, in the category of (i) diagnostic catheterisations; and (ii) percutaneous cardiac interventions and angioplasty.
Asked by Paula Bradshaw MLA on 31 March 2026
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 31 March 2026
- Answer due by
- 17 April 2026
- Answered
- 17 April 202617 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
Answer
The table below outlines the number of private patients recorded by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, who have used insurance or self-funding mechanisms to have a private procedure in the Belfast Trust’s Cardiac Catheterisation Labs in 2025/26 for diagnostic catheterisations and percutaneous cardiac interventions and angioplasty.
| 2025/2026 Cardiac Procedure Type | Private Patients Total |
| Diagnostic Catheterisations | 62 |
| Cardiac Angioplasty (PCI) +/- Stents | 23 |