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Breast and Cosmetic Implant Registry - January to December 2023, Management Information

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Breast and Cosmetic Implant Registry - January to December 2023, Management Information


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Summary

The Breast and Cosmetic Implant Registry (BCIR) records the details of any individual who has undergone breast implant surgery, so that they can be traced in the event of a product recall or other safety concern relating to a specific type of implant. Data collection started in England in late 2016, in Scotland in 2019 and in Northern Ireland in 2021.

The purpose of this report is to provide information on the uptake of the registry. It does not provide a comprehensive view of the number of breast implant operations undertaken. It provides an overview of the data collected between January and December 2023 and includes some historical data from the start of the registry in 2016. Information in this report represents data that was was extracted from theregistry on 22 March 2024.


Highlights

Further information on how the registry collects data, and what it does with it, can be found in the related links section below.

Key Facts

BCIR Patients: England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, January to December 2023

In 2023, 18,367 patients underwent 18,836 operations at 335 organisations (NHS and independent providers).

The number of operations is greater than the number of patients as a person may have had more than 1 operation. Patient and operation values between 1 and 7 are rounded to 7 – all other values are rounded to the nearest 5.

BCIR Data Collection: 2017 to 2023

Since January 2017, BCIR data has been submitted by 400 organisations in England, 16 in Scotland, and 7 in Northern Ireland.

Although the registry opened in England in October 2016, data collection was not fully implemented until 2017. 

BCIR Operations: England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, January to December 2023

18,836 operations undertaken between January and December 2023 were reported to the registry – 18,022 in England, 717 in Scotland and 97 in Northern Ireland.

 




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