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(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 hip and knee orthopaedic 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

39,287

May

41,792

June

40,369

July

42,183

August

37,768

September

40,248

October

43,375

November

41,465

December

37,640

2020

January

39,944

February

38,845

March

31,105

April

7,275

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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