Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many operations were cancelled by Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on the day they were scheduled to take place in 2016.

NHS England collects and publishes the number of operations cancelled at the ‘last minute’ for non-clinical reasons on a quarterly basis. Data for cancelled elective operations, by provider, up to quarter 2 of 2016-17 can be found at the following link:

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

NHS England does not collect the total number of cancelled operations, a breakdown of the type of operations that have been cancelled, or the specific reason for the cancellation. Operations cancelled for clinical reasons are not collected as the patient is not available for the operation. A last minute cancellation is defined as when a patient’s operation is cancelled by the hospital on or after the day of admission (including the day of surgery) for non-clinical reasons.