Cochlear Implants
(asked on 1st June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients have received a cochlear implant in each of the last three years.
The information requested is not collected centrally. This is because Hospital Episode Statistics are a count of episodes and not people. We are able to provide a count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) with a primary or secondary procedure or intervention for cochlear implants between 2014/15 and 2016/17. These are activity in English National Health Service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.
A count of FAEs with a primary or secondary procedure or intervention for cochlear implants in each of the years between 2014/15 and 2016/17 is shown in the following table:
Year | FAE count of Cochlear Implant |
2014/15 | 1,016 |
2015/16 | 1,136 |
2016/17 | 1,256 |
A FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.