Male circumcision incidence and morbidity data, NHS Oldham 2009

Data from NHS Oldham in 2009 showing that in 2009 254 non therapeutic circumcisions were performed on under 16s. The Commissioner estimates based on A&E attendance data that 17 presented in A&E with a complication within 30 days and that within 3 months, four children suffered a complication requiring hospital re-admission. The overlap between these two sets is not known but we can assume that complication rates within 3 months were at least 6.7% (N=17) and that the most serious complications affected 1.57% (N=4). In addition, NHS Oldham notes that it has funded the treatment of 9 babies for post circumcision haemorrhage and shock in the period April 2006 - March 2011 (5 years).