Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women had breast reconstruction surgery in the financial years (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18, (d) 2018-19 and (d) 2019-20.
The following table shows the number of finished consultant episodes (FCE) with a procedure mention of breast reconstruction and where the patient is female for each of year periods 2015-16 to 2019-20.
Financial Year | FCEs |
2015-16 | 8,335 |
2016-17 | 8,297 |
2017-18 | 8,463 |
2018-19 | 8,593 |
2019-20 | 8,234 |
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