Gender Recognition: Surgery

(asked on 9th November 2020) - View Source
Questioner
Neil O'Brien Portrait
Neil O'Brien
(Conservative - Harborough)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many gender reassignment and gender affirmation operations were carried out by the NhS in each year since 2000 for which data are available.

Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 14th January 2021

The following table shows the number of finished consultant episodes (FCE) where a main or secondary procedure for gender reassignment has been recorded for each year from 2000-01 to 2019-20.

Year

FCEs

2000-01

87

2001-02

95

2002-03

108

2003-04

120

2004-05

135

2005-06

139

2006-07

146

2007-08

136

2008-09

168

2009-10

151

2010-11

169

2011-12

163

2012-13

167

2013-14

176

2014-15

192

2015-16

188

2016-17

204

2017-18

228

2018-19

293

2019-20

342

Total

3,407

Notes:

  1. A FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under on consultant within one healthcare provider.
  2. Figures so not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.
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