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 stroke patients in Lewisham East constituency requiring thrombectomy treatment in each year since 2018.

The NHS Long Term Plan committed to increase the delivery of mechanical thrombectomy for suitable ischaemic stroke patients by 10%. Thrombectomy is available in 24 centres in England, with two non-neuroscience centres currently under development to improve access. The latest data shows that 2.8% of patients are receiving a thrombectomy following a stroke.

Information on stroke patients requiring thrombectomy treatment in Lewisham East is not held in the format requested. In 2020/21, no stroke patients treated by the Greenwich and Lewisham NHS Trust received thrombectomy treatment.