Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many centres carry out complex thoracic surgery in NHS England; what is their annual procedure volume; and when they will publish risk normalised outcome data for those centres.

There are 28 centres undertaking complex thoracic procedures.

Complex thoracic surgery involves a range of procedures, and therefore there is no overarching outcomes data set, only procedure-specific data.

The predominant procedure is lung resection. The latest outcomes data for this is available in the National Lung Cancer Audit annual report 2015 (for the audit period 2014), which is attached.