Knee Replacements: Hospitals
(asked on 20th February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average stay in hospital was for patients undergoing elective knee surgery in England in (a) 2010 and (b) the year for which the latest data are available.
This question was answered on 1st March 2023
The following table shows the average stay in hospital for patients undergoing elective knee surgery in England in 2010 and 2022/23.
Year | Records | Records with a valid duration recorded | Mean duration (days) | Median duration (days) |
2010/11 | 207,463 | 103,613 | 4.8 | 4 |
2022/23 (April to December 22 Provisional Data) | 89,644 | 65,995 | 3.2 | 2 |