AQW 42866/22-27 Written question to the Minister of Health
To ask the Minister of Health to detail how his Department is increasing the workforce of child specialist (i) physiotherapists; and (ii) therapists.
Asked by Connie Egan MLA on 20 March 2026
- Answered
- Written
- After due date
- Tabled
- 20 March 2026
- Answer due by
- 8 April 2026
- Answered
- 5 May 202646 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
Answer
My Department does not commission specialist provisions. Specialist practice and planning is a matter for individual HSC Trusts. For the 2025/26 academic year my Department commissioned 110 pre-registration Physiotherapy training places, and 93 pre-registration Occupational Therapy training places. These represent significant increases in training places on both programmes in recent years.