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Plastic Surgery: Breasts

Volume 490: debated on Thursday 26 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS patients have received corrective surgery following breast augmentation surgery performed outside the NHS in each year from 1999. (266051)

The information is not available centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients (a) sought NHS-funded breast augmentation surgery, (b) were referred for a psychological assessment and (c) (i) were approved for and (ii) received treatment in each year since 1999. (266052)

All the information requested is not collected centrally. Such information as is available is in the following table.

Finished consultant episodes (FCEs) where there is a primary or secondary procedure of breast augmentation in 1998-99 to 2007-08, activity in English national health service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector

Total FCEs

2007-08

1,601

2006-07

1,677

2005-06

1,739

2004-05

1,763

2003-04

1,539

2002-03

1,412

2001-02

1,196

2000-01

1,217

1999-2000

1,175

1998-99

1,310

Source:

Hospital Episode Statistics, The NHS Information Centre for health and social care