Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many hernia operations were carried out in the NHS in (1) 2018, (2) 2019, and (3) 2020.
The following table shows the number of finished consultant episodes (FCE) for primary or secondary hernia operations in England in 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21.
2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 |
132,145 | 121,555 | 61,385 |
Source: NHS Digital Hospital Episode Statistics
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