Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients in the area covered by Leeds clinical commissioning group waited more than 18 weeks for surgery after referral for a (a) hip and (b) knee replacement in each of the last five years.

The attached table shows the total number of the number of hip and knee replacement procedures and the amount that waited longer than 18 weeks from pathway start.

The data shows the number of procedures per year between the periods 2014/15 – 2018/19.

It should be noted that the data does not show individual patients as the same person may have been admitted into a National Health Service hospital on more than one occasion.