Knee Replacements: Hospitals

(asked on 22nd February 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2024 to Question 12699 on Knee Replacements: Out-patients, what the average number of days was that patients stayed in hospital following knee replacement operations in 2022-23.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 29th February 2024

Based on the latest data available from Hospital Episode Statistics, the median length of stay for finished consultant episodes where a knee replacement was the main procedure, was two days.

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