Surgical Mesh Implants

(asked on 7th September 2017) - View Source
Questioner
Justin Madders Portrait
Justin Madders
(Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were treated with a transvaginal mesh implant in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.

Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 13th September 2017

Data collected by the Hospitals Episode Statistics looks at the number of finished admission episodes (FAEs), rather than the individual visits. This could mean that an individual visited a hospital/hospitals on more than one occasion over one or many time frames.

The following table sets out the count of FAEs for all procedures relating to the fitting of a Transvaginal Mesh or Tape Implant from 2006/07-2015/16.

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

9,302

15,941

16,596

16,347

15,668

15,093

13,879

13,397

10,834

8,931

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