Breast Cancer: Surgery

(asked on 19th October 2020) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 3rd November 2020

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


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.
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