Government data from Northern Ireland details patient counts and wait durations for first consultant-led outpatient appointments. The dataset is structured by Health and Social Care Trust, medical specialty, programme of care, and time band. It originates from the Government Digital Service and is published under the UK Open Government Licence.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking outpatient service performance across different Health and Social Care Trusts based on waiting time data.
- Analyzing wait time distribution by medical specialty and programme of care to identify bottlenecks.
- Modeling trends in patient backlog and appointment delays over time based on time band data.
Strengths
- Data is structured by multiple administrative dimensions: HSC Trust, specialty, programme of care, and time band.
- Published under a permissive Open Government Licence for reuse.
Limitations
- Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Government Digital Service
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Northern Ireland