Press release

NHS cancelled elective operations, quarter ending 31 December 2012

Statistics on NHS cancelled elective operations for the quarter ending 31 December 2012 were released today.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 8 February 2013

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:

NHS cancelled elective operations, quarter ending 31 December 2012

 The key points from the latest release are:

• during the quarter ending 31 December 2012, 16,211 operations were cancelled at the last minute for non-clinical reasons. In the same period in 2011, there were 14,696 cancelled operations
• cancelled operations during the quarter represented 0.9% of all elective activity compared to 0.8% in the corresponding period in 2011
  • of these cancellations 651 (4.0%) of patients were not treated within 28 days of a cancellation.  In the same period in 2011, 553 (3.8%) of patients were not treated within 28 days

Full tables are available here

Additional Information

To contact the Media Centre, please refer to the Department of Health’s website for the relevant contact details.

The Government Statistical Service (GSS) statistician responsible for producing these data is:

Clare Hiblin

Knowledge and Intelligence

Department of Health

Room 8E10, Quarry House, Quarry Hill,LeedsLS2 7UE

Email: unify2@dh.gsi.gov.uk

Published 8 February 2013