Cancer: Surgery

(asked on 24th January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the number of cancelled operations for cancer patients in the winter of (a) 2016-17 and (b) each of the last five years.


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Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 27th January 2017

NHS England does not have any current plans to publish cancelled elective operations data by type of patient.

Currently NHS England collects the number of elective operations cancelled at the ‘last minute’ for non-clinical reasons on a quarterly basis. It 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.

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