§ Mrs. Margaret EwingTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many operations for the insertion of an artificial hip are carried out on United Kingdom citizens in(a) National Health Service hospitals, and (b) private hospitals in England annually.
§ Mr. FreemanHealth authorities in England reported 45,600 hip replacement operations in 1988–89.
Information is not collected centrally on surgical operations carried out in private hospitals. However, a report "The Role of the Private Sector in Elective Surgery in England and Wales in 1986" by J. P. Nicholl, M. R. Beeby and B. T. Williams, published in the 28 January 1989 issue of the British Medical Journal, copies of which are available in the Library, showed that 7,066 total hip replacement operations were performed in private hospitals in 1986.