Year: 2001
Module:Health Issues
Variable:WAIT1 - WAIT11

Suppose you had spent 18 months on a waiting list for treatment and were concerned about the length of time you had been waiting. Apart from your doctor or the hospital, who, if anyone, would you contact to try and do something about this?

The following tables show the percentage of respondents identifying each contact.

 
%
Health and Social Services Board
15
Health and Social Services Council
8
NHS Trust
4
Citizen's Advice Bureau (CAB)
3
Assembly Member (MLA)
6
Government department/minister
3
MP
20
Local councillor
8
Would go private
11
No-one
9
Other
3
(Don't know/can't remember)
26

 

Go to results for men and women, people of different ages and people of different religions.

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Results for men and women

 

%

  Male Female
Health and Social Services Board
16 14
Health and Social Services Council
5 9
NHS Trust
4 5
Citizen's Advice Bureau (CAB)
3 3
Assembly Member (MLA)
9 4
Government department/minister
3 3
MP
20 20
Local councillor
8 9
Would go private
12 11
No-one
10 9
Other
2 3
(Don't know/can't remember)
22 29

  

 

Results for people of different ages

 

%

  18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65+
Health and Social Services Board
6 18 15 17 17 13
Health and Social Services Council
6 10 6 11 9 4
NHS Trust
1 7 6 6 3 3
Citizen's Advice Bureau (CAB)
2 4 5 4 4 1
Assembly Member (MLA)
3 4 7 6 6 11
Government department/minister
1 1 5 2 3 4
MP
11 21 18 22 20 23
Local councillor
14 10 7 6 9 7
Would go private
7 16 12 7 14 10
No-one
11 9 11 6 13 7
Other
1 3 3 3 4 2
(Don't know/can't remember)
51 24 25 25 19 23

  

Results for people of different religions

 

%

  Catholic Protestant No religion
Health and Social Services Board
16 15 11
Health and Social Services Council
9 6 13
NHS Trust
3 5 5
Citizen's Advice Bureau (CAB)
4 2 6
Assembly Member (MLA)
7 7 5
Government department/minister
5 2 1
MP
19 21 18
Local councillor
10 8 8
Would go private
13 10 11
No-one
9 9 14
Other
2 4 3
(Don't know/can't remember)
29 24 22

 

 

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