Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many peripheral vascular stent implantations have been carried out in each NHS trust in each of the last five years.

The attached table shows a count of finished consultant episodes (FCE) with a main or secondary procedure for peripheral vascular stent implantations, by National Health Service trust, 2013-14 to 2017-18.

A FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.

In order to protect patient confidentiality, '*' appears in the table for all sub-national breakdowns, where it is possible to calculate a value between one and seven from the data presented. All other sub-national data has been rounded to the nearest five.