Tonsils: Surgery
(asked on 26th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many tonsillectomy operations were carried out in England in the last five years.
The information is not available in the form requested.
A count of finished consultant episodes (FCEs) with a primary or secondary procedure of tonsillectomy from 2010-11 to 2014-15 is below. Equivalent data for 2015-16 is not yet available, and a small number of tonsillectomy procedures are performed in outpatient settings which are not included in these figures.
Year | FCEs |
2010-11 | 48,073 |
2011-12 | 47,342 |
2012-13 | 48,808 |
2013-14 | 52,536 |
2014-15 | 52,595 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre.
Note:
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. 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.