Abstract
In the last decade, the annual number of circumcisions performed in England, under the auspices of the National Health Services (NHS), has changed little. The current cost of a circumcision, performed on a day-case basis, is £500. Government figures indicate that 30,591 circumcisions were performed in 1996—a cost to the NHS of at least £15.3 million.
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Donnell, S.C. (1999). Diagnosis and Treatment of Phimosis. In: Denniston, G.C., Hodges, F.M., Milos, M.F. (eds) Male and Female Circumcision. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-39937-9_6
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