Lymphoedema
(asked on 9th February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in the UK have been diagnosed with lymphoedema in the UK in each of the last five years.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
NHS Digital have provided a count of patients with a primary or secondary diagnosis of Lymphoedema, recorded for each year from 2016-17 to 2020-21 (inclusive).
The data represents activity in NHS Hospitals in England and English NHS-commissioned activity in the independent sector.
It is important to note that in any given year a patient will only be counted once, but it is possible that the same patient may be counted in multiple years.
Year | Number of patients |
2016/17 | 20,521 |
2017/18 | 22,928 |
2018/19 | 26,394 |
2019/20 | 29,688 |
2020/21 | 25,512 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital