Inpatient Waiting Times by Trust and Specialty in Northern Ireland
3filesCSV
Available on 1 platform
Sign in to view source links and access this dataset
Description
Government Digital Service data on patient waiting times for Inpatient and Day Case admissions at Health and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland. The dataset details the number of patients waiting and the length of time waiting, broken down by trust, specialty, programme of care, and time band at the end of each quarter. It is published under the UK Open Government Licence.
Use Cases
Benchmarking hospital performance based on waiting time statistics by trust and specialty.
Modeling healthcare demand and capacity based on quarterly patient backlog figures.
Analyzing trends in patient access delays based on time band categorizations.
Strengths
Data is structured by multiple administrative dimensions: HSC Trust, specialty, programme of care, and time band.
Provides a temporal view of healthcare system pressure with quarterly snapshots.
Published under a permissive Open Government Licence for reuse.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
Source
Government Digital Service via eu_open_data.
Collection Method
Administrative data collection from Health and Social Care (HSC) Trusts.
Time Range
Quarterly snapshots; specific date range is unknown.
Freshness
Quarterly, but specific last update is unknown.
Geography
Northern Ireland.
License requires attribution under the Open Government Licence terms.