Question follow-through · 2072

Heart Diseases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people are diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome as of July 2025.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 29 Jul 2024
Target answer date: 2 Sept 2024
Answer: 2 Sept 2024 · 35 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

29 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people are diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome as of July 2025.
2 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Sept 2024
Answer published
The most recent data shows that there were 186 diagnoses in the year 2021, the latest year for which data is available, which resulted in 87 live births. Further information is available at the following link:https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/pu...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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