HC Deb 12 December 1989 vol 163 c612W
64. Mr. David Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cataract operations each year are being carried out by the National Health Service at the present time; and what was the figure in 1979.

Mr. Freeman

The estimated number of operations on eye lenses (mainly cataract) performed on in-patients discharged from NHS non-psychiatric hospitals in England in 1986 (the last year for which information is available centrally) and 1979 were 62,200 and 40,110 respectively.

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