Hospitals: Waiting Lists
Health
Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many operations were cancelled in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England in each of the last five years.
Anna Soubry (Broxtowe, Conservative)
The information is shown in the following table:
| Number of elective operations cancelled at the last minute for non-clinical reasons | |||
| University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust | West Midlands SHA | England | |
| 2007-08 | 303 | 5,587 | 57,382 |
| 2008-09 | 634 | 6,444 | 63,644 |
| 2009-10 | 537 | 6,589 | 62,296 |
| 2010-11 | 612 | 6,434 | 58,297 |
| 2011-12 | 575 | 6,077 | 57,087 |
| 2012-13 (Q1) | 117 | 1,564 | 14,184 |
| Source: Department of Health datasets QMCO | |||