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Written Question · S3W-24105 · Session 3

How many individuals have undergone scar management plastic surgery procedures in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.

Answered Asked by Robert Brown LD Lodged 19 May 2009

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals have undergone scar management plastic surgery procedures in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.

The answer

Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 Jun 2009 · 13 days after it was lodged, on time

There are no specific set of codes that define scar management plastic surgery. The following Information includes patients who have been treated for burns and those who have had treatment following the removal of growths (malignant or otherwise) in the specialty of plastic surgery. This has been provided in the following table.
NHSScotland: Number of Patients Who Undergone Plastic Surgery Treatment for Burns* or Following the Removal of Growths* (Malignant of Otherwise) by NHS Board of Residence for the Years 2003-04 to 2007-08
NHS Board
| 2003-04
| 2004-05
| 2005-06
| 2006-07
| 2007-08

Ayrshire and Arran
| 44
| 56
| 53
| 43
| 40

Borders
| 13
| 10
| 14
| 9
| 5

Dumfries and Galloway
| 14
| 11
| 29
| 17
| 14

Fife
| 71
| 84
| 79
| 79
| 50

Forth Valley
| 35
| 32
| 37
| 31
| 38

Grampian
| 46
| 51
| 57
| 59
| 73

Greater Glasgow and Clyde
| 161
| 184
| 281
| 208
| 168

Highland
| 96
|

In the Official Report

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