Dan Neville
Ceist:219 Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of people with a mental handicap awaiting admission to residential care and day care in each of the health board areas. [28166/00]
Written Answers. - Residential Care.
Information from the National Intellectual Disability Database indicates that in April 1999 the numbers of new places required in the period 2000 to 2004 to meet the needs of those who had been assessed as requiring placements in the residential and day services were 1,677 residential and 912 day care. The breakdown between the various health boards is set out below. It should be noted that, as the data relate to April 1999, they do not reflect the full impact of the 1999 development programme or developments to date in the year 2000. During this period around 700 residential and 900 day places were provided.
|
Residential |
Day |
|
|
Eastern Regional Health Authority |
795 |
144 |
|
Midland Health Board |
154 |
191 |
|
Mid-Western Health Board |
126 |
96 |
|
North-Eastern Health Board |
41 |
113 |
|
North-Western Health Board |
47 |
140 |
|
South-Eastern Health Board |
164 |
53 |
|
Southern Health Board |
185 |
49 |
|
Western Health Board |
165 |
126 |
|
All Boards |
1,677 |
912 |
With reference to the numbers awaiting placement in day services in the Eastern Regional Health Authority area, a significant number of records from this region contained limited information and the need to have this information reviewed and up-dated has been brought to the authority's attention.
The validation process in relation to the April 2000 data is currently being completed and this data will be available early in 2001.