Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) treatments, (b) diagnostic tests and (c) operations undertaken by the NHS in each year since 2010.
Data on the number of treatments and operations undertaken by the National Health Service is not available in the format requested. The following table shows the number of diagnostic tests conducted in year since 2010.
2010 | 14,871,766 |
2011 | 15,596,624 |
2012 | 16,716,609 |
2013 | 17,615,951 |
2014 | 18,777,918 |
2015 | 19,985,469 |
2016 | 20,999,112 |
2017 | 21,842,681 |
2018 | 22,616,427 |
2019 | 23,619,514 |
2020 | 18,252,314 |
Source: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/diagnostics-waiting-times-and-activity/