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.
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.