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<p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Such information
as is available is from reference costs, which are the average cost to National Health
Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts of providing defined services in a given
financial year to NHS patients. Reference costs for acute care are collected by Healthcare
Resource Groups (HRGs), which are standard groupings of clinically similar treatments
that consume common levels of healthcare resource. The HRGs in the attached table
therefore include the costs of other knee procedures in addition to knee replacements.</p><p>
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