Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many patients per 1 million population were on the waiting list for (1) hip replacement, and (2) knee replacement, in (a) October 2012, (b) October 2014 and (c) October 2016 in the English regions of (i) London, (ii) the South, (iii) the Midlands and East, and (iv) the North.

The information is not available in the format requested. Referral to treatment data are collected by 18 treatment functions and are not condition or procedure specific. Hip and knee replacements are included in the trauma and orthopaedics treatment function. The following table sets out how many patients per one million of the population were on a waiting list in the trauma and orthopaedics treatment function at the end of October 2012 and 2014.

Table: Number of trauma and orthopaedics¹ patients per one million of the population that were waiting on an incomplete pathway at the end of October 2012 and October 2014.²

Source: Consultant-led referral to treatment waiting times, NHS England

Notes:

1. Consultant-led referral to treatment waiting times data is available for 18 treatment functions. Hip and knee replacements are included in the trauma and orthopaedics treatment function.
2. October 2016 data will be published on 8^th December 2016.