Surgery: Robotics
(asked on 18th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many surgical operations were carried out by the NHS using robotic means in the last 12 months for which data exists.
This question was answered on 24th October 2016
The data is not available in the form requested as a surgical operation can consist of several procedures which may or may not be carried out robotically.
However, there were 6,968 finished consultant episodes with a primary or secondary robotic procedure in 2014-15, the last 12 months for which data is available.