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Hysteroscopy: Correspondence

Asked by Andrew GwynneIndependentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 22 September 2025UIN 73952

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 September 2025 to Question 69778 on Hysteroscopy: Correspondence, whether his Department holds information on the number of women who were not sent a letter in advance of an outpatient hysteroscopy appointment.

Answered by Karin Smyth

The Department does not hold information on the number of women who were not sent a letter in advance of an outpatient hysteroscopy appointment specifically.

Letters and information sent to patients are determined at a local level by individual National Health Service trusts. A range of additional information is available for patients on hysteroscopy procedures, including on the NHS.UK website, and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has created a patient information resource on hysteroscopy. This is available at the following link:

https://www.rcog.org.uk/outpatient-hysteroscopy

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