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 23 September 2021 to Question 44360, on Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, if he will provide the data requested in the context of the Answer of 7 November 2016 to Question 51291, on Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

The information requested on the number of number of women diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome is not collected in the format requested. In our earlier answer of 7 November 2016, we provided the number of finished admission episodes (FAE) where the patient is female and a primary diagnosis for polycystic ovary syndrome was made in England. It should be noted that a FAE does not reflect the number of women who have had the syndrome as the same patient can be recorded on more than one occasion. In addition, diagnoses for this condition can occur in non-hospital settings, which is not recorded in this data.

The following table shows FAE activity in English National Health Service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector in each year from 2015-16 to 2019-2020.

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital