Heart Diseases
(asked on 25th May 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many heart valve replacements have been undertaken in the last five years for which figures are available; and whether those figures are comparable to France and Germany.
This question was answered on 7th June 2016
The number of finished consultant episodes (FCEs) with a main or secondary procedure for a heart valve replacement in England from 2010/11 to 2014/15 is shown in the table below:
Year | FCEs |
2010-11 | 10,543 |
2011-12 | 11,360 |
2012-13 | 11,434 |
2013-14 | 12,137 |
2014-15 | 12,833 |
The Government does not hold comparable data for heart valve replacement in France and Germany.