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The following table shows the number of patients who have waited for hip replacement surgery by time-band at Musgrave Park hospital.
| Patients who waited | ||||
| More than six months | More than 12 months | More than 18 months | More than 36 months | |
| Source: Green Park Healthcare HSS Trus t | ||||
The following table shows the number of hip replacement procedures that where carried out at Musgrave Park hospital.
| Number of procedures carried out | |
| Source: Hospital inpatient system | |
I have set targets to ensure that no patient waits longer than 26 weeks for a first outpatient appointment by 31 March 2007, reducing to 13 weeks by March 2008, and no longer than six months for surgery by 31 March 2007, reducing to 21 weeks by March 2008.
Dr. Alasdair McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the average waiting time for a patient requiring a hip replacement following a GP referral for (a) assessment and (b) hip replacement surgery in Northern Ireland was in the last period for which figures are available. [124692]
Paul Goggins: Currently, Musgrave Park hospital and Altnagelvin Area hospital are the only hospitals in Northern Ireland that routinely admit elective patients for hip replacement surgery.
(a) The average waiting time at Musgrave Park hospital, for a patient requiring a hip replacement following a GP referral for assessment, at the 31 December 2006 was 160 days.
At Altnagelvin Area hospital outpatient assessments are recorded by specialty rather than condition. In the
case of hip replacements, Altnagelvin Area hospital record these assessments under the trauma and orthopaedics specialty. This specialty will include a number of orthopaedic conditions affecting, for example, shoulders, knees, ankles etc. It is therefore not possible to calculate the average waiting time specifically for a hip replacement assessment at Altnagelvin Area hospital. Altnagelvin Area hospital is able to say that 91 per cent. of patients waiting under the trauma and orthopaedic specialty were waiting eight months or less at 31 December 2006.
(b) The average waiting time at Musgrave Park hospital, for a patient requiring a hip replacement surgery following a referral, at 31 December 2006 was 94 days.
The average waiting time at Altnagelvin Area hospital, for a patient requiring a hip replacement surgery following a referral, at the 31 December 2006 was approximately seven months.
I have set targets to ensure that no patient waits longer than 26 weeks for a first outpatient appointment by 31 March 2007, reducing to 13 weeks by March 2008, and no longer than six months for surgery by 31 March 2007, reducing to 21 weeks by March 2008.
Dr. Alasdair McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many hip replacement operations were carried out on patients of 80 years and above in the (a) Musgrave Park Hospital, (b) Ulster Hospital, (c) Royal Victoria Hospital, (e) Lagan Valley Hospital, (f) Belfast City Hospital and (g) Mater Hospital in each of the last five years. [125341]
Paul Goggins: The following table details the approximate number of individuals(1), aged 80 years and above, who received a hip replacement operation in selected hospitals in Northern Ireland, during each year between 2001-02 and 2005-06 (the latest year for which data are available). No such operations were recorded in the Lagan Valley, Belfast City or Mater hospitals during these years.
For the hospitals specified, Musgrave Park hospital is the only hospital that routinely admits elective patients for hip replacement surgery. For the other hospitals listed, some emergency hip replacement operations were undertaken at the Ulster and Royal Victoria hospitals for the age group in question.
(1) Individuals have been approximated using date of birth, postcode and sex.
| Hospital | ||||
| Age group | Musgrave Park | Ulster | Royal Victoria | |
| Source: Hospital In-patient System. | ||||
Hospitals: Parking
Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much money was raised by car park charges at each hospital in Northern Ireland in each of the past three years. [125047]
Paul Goggins: Information for the 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06 financial years is given in the following table.
| £000 | |||
| Hospital | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 |
| (1) Parking at the Royal Group of Hospitals is operated by Private Finance Initiative and the income received by the operator is unknown | |||
Missing Persons
Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many missing persons were recorded in each police district command unit area in Northern Ireland in each of the past five years; and what training and support has been provided to police officers in Northern Ireland in dealing with such cases. [125065]
Paul Goggins: In April 2006, the Police Service of Northern Ireland introduced the National Standards for Incident Reporting (NSIR). NSIR set new standards for the recording of non-crime incidents and enables figures from the command and control system to be accurately collated for the number of incidents where a person has been reported missing to the police. Therefore figures are only available from 1 April 2006. The information prior to this would require a manual trawl of documents in each DCU and would be available only at disproportionate cost.
The PSNI has provided the following table detailing the number of incidents of missing persons, by DCU, from April 2006 to January 2007.
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