Hospitals: Waiting Lists
(asked on 5th June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many operations have been cancelled because of scheduling error in (a) St Albans, (b) Hertfordshire and (c) England since 2005.
Information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is shown in the following table.
Table: Cancelled elective operations, 2005-06 to 2013-14
| West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust |
England |
2005-06 |
621 |
856 | 60,803 |
2006-07 |
929 |
682 | 52,005 |
2007-08 |
1,081 |
873 | 57,382 |
2008-09 |
527 |
965 | 63,644 |
2009-10 |
383 |
358 | 62,296 |
2010-11 |
314 |
297 | 58,295 |
2011-12 |
367 |
220 | 57,087 |
2012-13 |
486 |
150 | 63,517 |
2013-14 |
357 |
179 | 64,192 |
Notes:
Cancelled elective operations are defined as operations that were cancelled by the hospital for non-clinical reasons on the day the patient was due to arrive in hospital, or after the patient has arrived in hospital, or on the day of the operation or surgery. The data does not distinguish between scheduling errors and other non-clinical reasons for cancellation.
Source:
Cancelled elective operations. Published quarterly by NHS England at www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancelled-elective-operations/