Following on from yesterday's case study, the chart below compares the number of breast implants with the number of breast reductions funded by the NHS in England between 2007-2009. These are operations taken in NHS hospitals or commissioned for the independent sector.
More up to date data is yet to be available, although the NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care said in a Freedom of Information request that hospital incidents of such procedures were published on HES Online here, here and here.
According to the NHS Information Centre, "breast reconstruction may be carried out following an injury, or for medical reasons or for cosmetic reasons." But as procedures get logged in by codes and since within one surgical operation more than one procedure may be carried out, the NHS said extracting this information from HES Online might bring up duplicates. Still with the various types of codes it uses to log operations, which have also been changing several times over the years, this information is rather hidden from our view, at least for the time being.
Click here for the Google spreadsheet (draft).
More up to date data is yet to be available, although the NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care said in a Freedom of Information request that hospital incidents of such procedures were published on HES Online here, here and here.
According to the NHS Information Centre, "breast reconstruction may be carried out following an injury, or for medical reasons or for cosmetic reasons." But as procedures get logged in by codes and since within one surgical operation more than one procedure may be carried out, the NHS said extracting this information from HES Online might bring up duplicates. Still with the various types of codes it uses to log operations, which have also been changing several times over the years, this information is rather hidden from our view, at least for the time being.
Click here for the Google spreadsheet (draft).
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