Cataracts: Surgery
Commons · Question 50579 · Tabled 7 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 16 May 2025
Question
Asked by Ian Byrne
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of patients to have undergone NHS cataract surgery in private clinics in each of the last six years.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 16 May 2025
The following table shows the number of patients who have undergone National Health Service cataract surgery in private clinics in each of the last six years:YearIndependent provider totalDifferenceAdmissionsPatientsAdmissionsPatients2017/1875,09657,676--...