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Question follow-through · 15347

Pectus Excavatum: Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Haller index threshold for pectus excavatum surgery provided on the NHS.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
20 Nov 2024
Target answer date
25 Nov 2024
Answer
27 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Haller index threshold for pectus excavatum surgery provided on the NHS.

  2. 25 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 27 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    In April 2023, NHS England published an interim clinical commissioning urgent policy statement on pectus excavatum surgery. The statement concluded that the Haller Index, a mathematical calculation used to measure the severity of the deformity, is adequat...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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