Surgery: Waiting Lists

(asked on 24th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many elective operations in the NHS have been cancelled in the last 12 months.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
This question was answered on 31st January 2018

NHS England publishes quarterly performance data on the number of last minute elective operations cancelled for non-clinical reasons. This can be accessed via NHS England’s Statistical work areas webpage at:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancelled-elective-operations/cancelled-ops-data/

Data for cancelled elective operations for Quarter 3 2017-18 will be published on 8 February 2018.

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