Nervous System: Surgery
(asked on 6th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have had nerve transfer surgery for spinal damage in the last five years.
This question was answered on 14th March 2017
A count of Finished Admission Episodes with a primary diagnosis of Spinal Damage and a main or secondary procedure of nerve transfer, for England, for the financial years between 2011-12 and 2015-16 is shown in the following table.
| 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 |
Finished Admission Episodes | 6 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 4 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital
Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.