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Dept of Health

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Miss Kirkbride: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many operations were cancelled at the Worcestershire NHS Trust hospital (a) for medical reasons and (b) because of a lack of beds in each year between 1997 and 2005. [224821] Dr. Ladyman: The information is not available in the format requested. The table shows cancelled operations for non clinical reasons at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust for the years 2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04 and 2004-051. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Org. ID Name Number of last minute cancellations for non clinical reasons 2004-05 RWP Worcestershire Acute Hospitals 560 NHS Trust 2003-04 RWP Worcestershire Acute Hospitals 1,073 NHS Trust 2002-03 RWP Worcestershire Acute Hospitals 856 NHS Trust 2001-02 RWP Worcestershire Acute Hospitals 459 NHS Trust _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 For the three quarters only to December of the financial year. Notes: 1. Data prior to 2001-02 were only collected at health authority level. There is no breakdown by trust. 2. A last minute cancellation is one that occurs on the day the patient was due to arrive, after they have arrived in hospital or on the day of their operation. This includes patients who have not actually arrived in hospital and have been telephoned at home prior to their arrival. 3. Non-clinical reasons for cancellations by the hospital include: ward beds unavailable; surgeon unavailable; emergency case needing theatre; theatre list over-ran; equipment failure; admin. error; anaesthetist unavailable; theatre staff unavailable; and critical care bed unavailable. These examples are based on information from the Modernisation Agency's theatres project and do not necessarily cover all non-clinical reason. Source: Department of Health dataset QMCO and QMNG (2001-02).

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

432 c1544-5W;432 c1540-1W; 224821

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Hospital beds Waiting lists Surgery Worcestershire Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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