Surgery
Health
Michael Dugher (Barnsley East, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many operations have been cancelled by hospitals in Barnsley metropolitan borough in the last 12 months.
Simon Burns (Minister of State (Health), Health; Chelmsford, Conservative)
Information is not centrally held in the format requested. The number of elective operations cancelled at the last minute for non-clinical reasons between quarter 4 of 2010-11 and quarter 3 of 2011-12 for Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is shown in the following table.
| Last minute elective operations cancelled for non-clinical reasons | |
| Number | |
| Quarter 4 2010-11 | 48 |
| Quarter 1 2011-12 | 49 |
| Quarter 2 2011-12 | 31 |
| Quarter 3 2011-12 | 56 |
| Total | 184 |
| Note: 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. Source: Department of Health dataset Quarterly Monitoring Cancelled Operations. | |