Hip Replacement Operations

HC Deb 10 July 1995 vol 263 c441W

Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is his estimate of the percentage of hip replacement operations that required(a) one revision and (b) more than one revision in each of the past 12 years. [29268]

Mr. Sackville

[holding answer 21 June 1995]: The information is not available in the form requested. The information in the table shows the proportion of the total number of hip operations in each of the last six years that were revisions. Comparable figures for earlier years are not available.

	Hip operations	Revisions	Percentage revisions
1988–89	46,490	2,882	6.2
1989–90	50,790	3,555	7.0
1990–91	50,725	3,449	6.8
1991–92	55,642	3,895	7.0
1992–93	57,437	3,963	6.9
1993–94	58,439	3,740	6.4

Source:

Hospital Episode Statistics—Estimate from 25 per cent. sample.

Hip operation codes—shortlist code WC1 and WC3.

OPCS4R codes W37-W39, W46-W48.

Revision code—37.3, 38.3, 39.3 46.3, 47.3 and 48.3.