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(asked on 22nd November 2021) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 29th November 2021

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/

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