Tonsils: Surgery
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many tonsillectomies were carried out on children in each of the last five years.
Answered by Karin Smyth
A count of finished consultant episodes in England for children aged zero to 17 years old with a primary or secondary procedure of tonsillectomy from 2020/21 to 2024/25 is as follows:
- between 2020/21 there were 9,706 procedures;
- between 2021/22 there were 16,914 procedures;
- between 2022/23 there were 21,348 procedures;
- between 2023/24 there were 24,807 procedures; and
- between 2024/25 there were 31,000 procedures.
The increase in the number of procedures carried out each year between 2020/21 and 2024/25 reflects the National Health Service’s ongoing work to recover elective activity following the disruption caused by the COVID‑19 pandemic and represents a return to pre-pandemic levels of treatment.
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