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.
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 |