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Written question asked by Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party) on Monday, 17 November 2025, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 19 November 2025. It was answered by Stephen Kinnock (Labour) on Monday, 24 November 2025 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.


Eyes: Transplant Surgery

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have received cornea transplants aged under 18 in each of the last 3 years.

Answer

In the last three years, there has been a total of 469 finished consultant episodes recorded where there was any procedure of ‘other corneal graft procedure’ for patients aged zero to 17 years old, when accounting for activity in English National Health Service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the private sector. By year there were:

  • 195 in 2022/23;
  • 138 in 2023/24; and
  • 136 in 2024/25.

This information has been gathered from the Hospital Episode Statistics dataset, which is published by NHS England.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
91345
Session
2024-26
Subjects
Children Eyes Transplant surgery
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.parliament.uk