Knee Replacements

(asked on 26th June 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many knee replacement revisions were carried out by the NHS in England in the last three years; and how long the average time interval was between total knee replacement and subsequent revision procedures.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 3rd July 2014

The attached table shows how many knee replacement operations were carried out in England, by region, in the last three years.

The following table shows how many knee replacement revisions were carried out by the National Health Service in England in the last three years. Information relating to how long the average time interval was between total knee replacement and subsequent revision procedures is not held centrally.

Year

Region

Full Knee Replacement

Only one bone in the knee joint is replaced

2010-11

North East

456

*

North West

825

*

Yorkshire And The Humber

759

*

East Midlands

551

*

West Midlands

751

*

East Of England

733

*

London

738

*

South East Coast

673

*

South Central

670

*

South West

868

7

England Total

7,024

25

2011-12

North East

422

*

North West

704

*

Yorkshire And The Humber

751

*

East Midlands

547

*

West Midlands

728

*

East Of England

612

*

London

747

*

South East Coast

613

*

South Central

576

*

South West

839

*

England Total

6,539

14

2012-13

North East

396

*

North West

759

*

Yorkshire And The Humber

677

*

East Midlands

572

*

West Midlands

713

*

East Of England

596

*

London

768

*

South East Coast

584

*

South Central

545

*

South West

915

8

England Total

6,525

18

Notes:

1. Finished Consultant Episode (FCE): Both tables show FCEs. An 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. The figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person.

2. The data should not be described as a count of people as the same person may have been admitted on one or more occasion.

3. †Providers that are not based in England have been removed, and therefore the national totals may not be equal to the sum of the regional totals.

4. To protect patient confidentiality, figures between 1 and 5 have been replaced with “*” (an asterisk). Where it was still possible to identify figures from the total, additional figures have been replaced with "*”.

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