Cataracts: Medical Treatments

(asked on 7th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cataract procedures have taken place in the NHS in each month since April 2019.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 15th July 2020

The data requested is provided in the following table. It should be noted that the data is provisional and subject to review.

Year

Month

Episodes

2019

April

36,390

May

38,750

June

38,741

July

42,554

August

37,188

September

40,457

October

43,774

November

43,313

December

34,948

2020

January

42,738

February

39,528

March

26,658

April

148

Figures provided do not represent the number of different patients as a person may have more than one episode of care.

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