Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of NHS (a) operations, (b) appointments and (c) tests that took place in Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust between July and November in (i) 2023 and (ii) 2024.
The following table shows the number of additional elective appointments at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the period July to November 2023, and the corresponding period in 2024:
Time period | Elective operations | Outpatient appointments | Diagnostic tests | Total |
July to November 2023 | 18,383 | 84,742 | 47,987 | 151,112 |
July to November 2023, adjusted for working days | 18,553 | 85,527 | 48,431 | 152,511 |
July to November 2024 | 21,444 | 105,003 | 55,379 | 181,826 |
Additional appointments | 2,891 | 19,476 | 6,948 | 29,315 |
Source: NHS England
Note: These data are consistent with the publication of additional elective appointments on 16 February which includes those scope of the Value Weighted Activity metric with the key diagnostic times from diagnostic waiting times statistics. It excludes outpatient appointments without procedure and elective admissions for endoscopies to avoid double-counting of diagnostics. The scope of this data is limited to elective services consistent with consultant-led referral to treatment waiting times. It excludes emergency care, maternity and mental health services.