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Surgery: Medical Treatments Abroad

Asked by Dr Caroline JohnsonConservativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 17 November 2025UIN 84376

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of British citizens have have required remedial surgery in the NHS as a result of poor elective overseas surgery.

Answered by Karin Smyth

The data requested is not held centrally by the Department.

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