Gareth Thomas
Shadow Minister (Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs), Party Chair, Co-operative Party
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many operations were cancelled on or after the day of admission in each NHS trust in London in the last five years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
Jane Ellison
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
The information requested is contained within the following table. Responsibility for publishing this information transferred to NHS England on
| Cancelled operations for non-clinical reasons, NHS organisations in London, 2008-09 to 2012-13 | ||||||
| Number of last minute cancellations for non-clinical reasons | ||||||
| Org ID | Name | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 |
| 5C5 | Newham PCT | — | 0 | 2 | — | — |
| R1H | Barts Health NHS Trust | — | — | — | — | 991 |
| RAL | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust | 415 | 800 | 538 | 479 | 584 |
| RAN | Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust | 167 | 143 | 195 | 163 | 120 |
| RAP | North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust | 108 | 100 | 231 | 154 | 72 |
| RAS | The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 114 | 227 | 161 | 148 | 151 |
| RAX | Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | 280 | 181 | 141 | 129 | 137 |
| RC3 | Ealing Hospital NHS Trust | 166 | 62 | 92 | 112 | 131 |
| RF4 | Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust | 732 | 344 | 363 | 368 | 400 |
| RFW | West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust | 62 | 73 | 43 | 45 | 77 |
| RG2 | Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust | 194 | — | — | — | — |
| RG3 | Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust | 323 | — | — | — | — |
| RGC | Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust | 271 | 331 | 232 | 223 | — |
| RGZ | Queen Marys Sidcup NHS Trust | 185 | — | — | — | — |
| RJ1 | Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust | 686 | 459 | 432 | 377 | 464 |
| RJ2 | Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust | 200 | 177 | 150 | 164 | 203 |
| RJ6 | Croydon Health Services NHS Trust | 188 | 400 | 321 | 330 | 270 |
| RJ7 | ST George's Healthcare NHS Trust | 821 | 340 | 277 | 302 | 327 |
| RJZ | King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | 323 | 187 | 249 | 316 | 587 |
| RKE | The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust | 94 | 116 | 83 | 56 | 102 |
| RNH | Newham University Hospital NHS Trust | 76 | 59 | 73 | 85 | — |
| RNJ | Barts and the London NHS Trust | 593 | 475 | 567 | 501 | — |
| RP4 | Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust | 200 | 176 | 193 | 224 | 127 |
| RP6 | Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | 288 | 178 | 228 | 188 | 125 |
| RPY | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust | 112 | 122 | 63 | 64 | 42 |
| RQM | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | 167 | 155 | 91 | 88 | 83 |
| RQX | Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | 114 | 103 | 41 | 37 | 37 |
| RRV | University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 1,042 | 871 | 720 | 858 | 907 |
| RT3 | Royal Brompton Harefield NHS Foundation Trust | 291 | 226 | 267 | 335 | 358 |
| RV8 | North West London Hospitals NHS Trust | 606 | 56 | 447 | 477 | 517 |
| RVL | Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust | 612 | 378 | 305 | 398 | 324 |
| RVR | Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust | 394 | 297 | 243 | 218 | 271 |
| RYJ | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | 758 | 631 | 642 | 672 | 710 |
| RYQ | South London Healthcare NHS Trust | — | 899 | 954 | 1,250 | 1,357 |
| Notes: 1. The table above shows the organisations as they existed at the time of each collection. 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. 3. Some common 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. 4. An operation which is rescheduled to a time within 24 hours of the original scheduled operation should be recorded as a postponement and not as a cancellation. The QMCO collection does not record the number of postponements. Source: Department of Health dataset QMCO | ||||||
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