FOI2026/2089

Please could you treat this as a Freedom of Information request and provide the most recent figures held by your ICB for:

• People living in the community with a tracheostomy in place.
• People living in the community following a total laryngectomy, with a permanent stoma.

By community, I mean people living at home or in residential or nursing care, rather than hospital inpatients. I am looking for the number currently living with these conditions, rather than the number of procedures performed during a year.

If available, please separate adults and children and provide the figures for tracheostomy and laryngectomy separately.

If you do not hold figures for everyone in your area, figures for people known to your Continuing Healthcare, children’s continuing care or Personal Health Budget teams would still be helpful. Please clarify which groups are included and avoid counting the same person more than once where possible.

Please also confirm:

• The date the figures relate to.
• The geographical area covered.
• Any limitations in who is included.

I am requesting anonymous totals only, with no patient-identifiable information.

NHS Greater Manchester does not hold the requested figures centrally in a form that can be reliably reported.