This State of the Nation report for 2023 publishes information on emergency (non-elective) and elective procedures for the following patient groups:
- patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) who undergo either (a) lower limb angioplasty/stent, (b) lower limb bypass surgery, or (c) lower limb amputation
- patients who have a repair procedure for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and other aortic conditions
- patients who undergo carotid endarterectomy or carotid stenting.
It contains key findings of vascular procedures carried out in 2022 (some outcome measures use data from 2020-2022). The volumes of procedures undertaken in 2019 are included to show activity before the COVID-19 pandemic.
The additional supplementary materials that accompany this report include data tables containing individual NHS trust/health board results of the key NVR metrics, an interactive organisational data viewer spreadsheet and the supplementary tables and results that underpin the main report. The spreadsheets also break the results down by UK country.