Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many privately-funded cataract operations were conducted in NHS hospitals in England in 2013-14.

A total of 360,682 finished consultant episodes with a main or secondary procedure of cataract surgery were carried out in 2013-14; 3,600¹ were provided to private patients in a National Health Service hospital.

These figures do 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.

¹ Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre