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Ms Primarolo
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will estimate the number of (a) women and (b) men receiving ECT each year; and what is the ratio between them.
Mr. Bowis
The number of electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) treatments in 1990–91 was 105,466 but a patient could receive more than one treatment during the year. It is estimated that five women receive ECT for every two men.