NI Life and Times Survey - 2001: WAIT1

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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