§ Mr. Roy Hughesasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many coronary by-pass grafting operations were performed in England in 1981; and if he will express the figure as a rate per million of the population.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergFigures are not available in the form requested. A total of 5,011 operations for ischaemic heart disease were carried out in the United Kingdom in 1980, the latest year for which figures are available. This amounts to a rate of approximately 90 per million total population. Most of these operations will have been coronary artery by-pass grafts.