Northern Ireland Executive
25 May 2023, 21 GMT+10
The Department of Health today published the quarterly Northern Ireland Inpatient, Day Case, Diagnostic and Outpatient Waiting Times Statistics, relating to the position at 31 March 2023.
The Waiting Times Statistics releases show detailed information on the number of people waiting for a first consultant-led outpatient appointment, a diagnostic test and inpatient or day case treatment at hospitals in Northern Ireland.
Statistics on patients waiting for an outpatient appointment or day case admission at Day Case Procedure Centres are now included in the main waiting list figures rather than being reported separately as in previous releases. Time series presented in these releases have been backdated to reflect this change. The total number of patients waiting each quarter remains unchanged.
Additional statistics are being published detailing analysis of the median and 95th percentile waiting times for outpatients and inpatients/day cases.
The median waiting time is the middle value when all patients are ordered by length of time waiting. This is preferred over the mean as an average of waiting times because waiting times tend to be skewed by longer waits and therefore more patients are waiting for less time than the mean.
The 95th percentile waiting time is the length of time that 95% of patients have been waiting equal to or less than i.e. one in twenty patients have been waiting longer than this time. The 95th percentile is used as an indication of the range of current waiting times without being distorted by extreme values or the prioritisation of urgent waits.
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