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Mr. Dunn
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hip operations were carried out during the last 10 years for which figures are available.
Mr. Sackville
The information is shown in the table.
| Hip operations in England1 | |
| Year | [000s] |
| 1979 | 28.8 |
| 1980 | 31.7 |
| 1981 | 32.8 |
| 1982 | 33.2 |
| 1983 | 36.2 |
| 1984 | 36.9 |
| 1985 | 36.5 |
| 1986 | 41.0 |
| 1989–90 | 50.8 |
Sources:
1979–1986 Hospital Activity Analysis (Total hip replacement and other arthroplasty of hip).
1989–90 Hospital Episode Statistics (Total prosthetic replacement of hip joint, with/without cement, other replacement of hip joint and prosthetic replacement of head of femur, with/without cement, other replacement of head of femur).
Information for 1990–91 will be available in the autumn.
1 Data for 1987–88 and 1988–89 is not available.