Gastrointestinal System: Surgery
(asked on 27th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people had gastrointestinal operations in each of the last five years.
The information is not available in the form requested.
For England, a count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) with a primary or secondary procedure of gastrointestinal operation from 2010-11 to 2014-15 is below.
Year | FAEs |
2010-11 | 1,375,343 |
2011-12 | 1,472,621 |
2012-13 | 1,567,615 |
2013-14 | 1,603,365 |
2014-15 | 1,699,845 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, Health and Social Care Information Centre
Note: An FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.