{"id":852,"date":"2016-09-26T08:02:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T07:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=852"},"modified":"2018-11-06T09:21:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T09:21:43","slug":"cancelled-operations-are-not-being-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/cancelled-operations-are-not-being-recorded\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancelled Operations Are Not Being Recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"

Operations that are cancelled days before they are due to take place are not being recorded in official NHS figures. <\/p>\n

Data published by NHS England shows that less than 1% of operations are cancelled \u2018at the last minute\u2019.<\/p>\n

The definition of last-minute means the procedure was cancelled on the day the patient was scheduled to be admitted or have the operation.<\/p>\n

However, the official figures do not include operations that are cancelled in the days beforehand.<\/p>\n

Under a Freedom of Information request, the BBC asked hospital Trusts in England to provide the number of operations cancelled one to three days before admission due to non-medical reasons.<\/p>\n

Of the 156 Trusts, 74 responded with data showing that 41,474 operations were cancelled last year within one to three days of the scheduled date of admission.<\/p>\n

This is higher than the official figures, which show that 33,400 operations were cancelled at the last-minute.<\/p>\n

A shortage of beds and staff were the most common causes of operation cancellations. <\/p>\n

Katherine Murphy, chief executive of the Patient\u2019s Association, said the experience can be very troubling for the patient and their loved ones. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t underestimate the upset for them, their family, their friends and everyone else if an operation is cancelled\u201d, she said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are talking about individuals who are often in pain or suffering. They will have made lots of arrangements. It can have a huge psychological or financial impact on people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Operations that are cancelled days before they are due to take place are not being recorded in official NHS figures. Data published by NHS England shows that less than 1% of operations are cancelled \u2018at the last minute\u2019. The definition of last-minute means the procedure was cancelled on the day the patient was scheduled to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[945,946,944,825],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhs-staff-shortages","tag-nhs-data","tag-operation-cancellations","tag-operation-cancelled","tag-operations-cancelled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}