Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients underwent an interventional radiology (image-guided surgery) procedure in each region in each of the last three years.
The table below is a count of finished admission episodes with a main or secondary procedure of interventional radiology by Government office region of treatment, for the years 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17. Activity of English National Health Service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector are included.
Government office region of treatment | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 |
North East | 44,226 | 47,241 | 50,639 |
North West | 137,061 | 143,146 | 146,180 |
Yorkshire and The Humber | 88,378 | 92,394 | 96,620 |
East Midlands | 58,464 | 63,448 | 66,906 |
West Midlands | 93,460 | 96,954 | 99,433 |
East of England | 94,158 | 98,084 | 102,355 |
London | 155,470 | 163,005 | 173,867 |
South East | 128,021 | 138,157 | 147,546 |
South West | 78,600 | 85,716 | 86,288 |
Total | 877,838 | 928,145 | 969,834 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital
This data provides a count of the number of interventional radiology procedures, not the number of individual patients as the same person may have multiple procedures.