Wednesday 01 May 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_7243
Date Request Received: 15/06/2023 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 30/06/2023 00:00:00
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Request Summary: patients with operations cancelled twice
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: Please may I request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act, on patients who have their operation cancelled several times at your trust. Please can you provide figures on the total number of patients who have had their operation cancelled for a second time. I would like these figures broken down by year for each of the past five years: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. For context, I am looking for incidents where the surgery was cancelled for non-clinical reasons (i.e. staff shortages, equipment problems, lack of theatre capacity) and also not at the request of the patient. In addition, please can you provide the largest number of times that a single patient has had their operation cancelled for non-clinical reasons, over the past five years. Please could you name the operation in question (e.g. hip replacement), and the year that the last cancellation took place (e.g. 2022). | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see our response to this FOI in the Excel spreadsheet attached. Numbers less than five have been concealed to protect patient confidentiality. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  FOI_7243 - Cancelled Operations.xlsx | |
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