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Mr. Gareth Wardell
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many adults resident in Wales had open-heart surgery outside Wales in 1992.
Mr. Gwilym Jones
The latest available information is given as follows:
| Patients treated in English NHS hospitals: Finished consultant episodes, by main operation, 1991–921 2 | |
| Aged 16 and over | Age not known |
| 431 | 88 |
| 1 Excludes patients recorded as being under 16 years of age. | |
| 2 Includes operations of heart valves and adjacent structures, operations on coronary artery and other open heart operations. | |