Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women had mastectomies in the financial years (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18, (d) 2018-19 and (e) 2019-20.

The following table shows the count of finished consultant episodes (FCE) with a procedure of mastectomy, where the patient is female for each of the years 2015/16 to 2019/20.

Notes:

1. A FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider.
2. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay on hospital or in different stays in the same year.