Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of knee replacement operations do not require an overnight stay in hospital.

For the year 2022/23, based on the latest data available from Hospital Episode Statistics, there were 87,584 finished consultant episodes (FCEs) and 11 attended outpatient appointments, with a knee replacement as the main procedure. Of the FCEs, 969 were day cases, where the patient was discharged from hospital on the same day that they were admitted. Day cases and attended outpatient appointments, which did not require an overnight stay in hospital, represented 1.1% of knee replacement operations.