Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women had (a) a mastectomy and breast construction surgery on the same day and (b) delayed breast reconstruction in the financial years (i) 2015-16, (ii) 2016-17, (iii) 2017-18, (iv) 2018-19 and (v) 2019-20.
The following table shows the number of finished consultant episodes (FCE) where a procedure has mention of mastectomy and breast reconstruction on the same episode and FCEs where a code for reconstruction appears but not a code for mastectomy where the patient is female for each of the years 2015/16 to 2019/20.
Financial year | Mastectomy and reconstruction | Reconstruction without mastectomy |
2015-16 | 4,802 | 3,533 |
2016-17 | 4,743 | 3,554 |
2017-18 | 4,762 | 3,701 |
2018-19 | 4,813 | 3,780 |
2019-20 | 4,673 | 3,561 |
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