Endometriosis

(asked on 14th April 2022) - View Source
Questioner
Carla Lockhart Portrait
Carla Lockhart
(Democratic Unionist Party - Upper Bann)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of endometriosis cases treated by the NHS in each of the last 5 years.

Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 27th April 2022

The information is not held in the format requested. However, the following table shows the number hospital finished admissions episodes with a primary diagnosis of endometriosis in each year from 2016/17 to 2020/21.

2016/17

20,568

2017/18

21,160

2018/19

22,298

2019/20

21,888

2020/21

13,675

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital

Notes:

  1. This information does not show a count of people, as the same person could be admitted to hospital or receive outpatient care on more than one occasion.
  2. Some treatments will often take place outside a hospital environment.

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