Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many surgery cancellations there have been by speciality in the last 12 months.

The information is not available in the format requested. However, we continue to work to minimise cancellations and reschedule activity as soon as possible across all specialities.

For example, from April 2023, providers are being asked to establish Perioperative Care Co-ordination teams. These are multidisciplinary teams that will assess health needs to proactively inform pre- and post-operative care and identify surgical risk factors, in order to reduce the chance of cancellations and to improve patient outcomes.