FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI 02589
- Request Date
- July 24, 2018
- Subject
- Under 18 Cancelled Operations
- Description
I write under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information.
1. How many children’s operations have been cancelled each month since April 2017? Please give additional details as to what the main reasons for the cancellations were, how many were urgent operations or elective operations and what type of illness did they involve, e.g. cancer, breathing problems, broken limbs etc.
2. How many children’s operations have been cancelled over the past eight financial years (2010/11 through to, and including, 2017/18) and in Year to Date 2018/19? Please break the data down by financial year.
Kindly note a child is anyone up to the age of 18.
- Response
The only element of this request that we can’t answer is “Type of illness being treated” as the diagnosis is not collected along with cancellation data.
The details requested in the numbered questions do not fit into the tables provided by the requester so please find the results in the attached table. We are not a specialist children’s hospital so the numbers are quite low. Most emergency cases would be sent to Alder Hey.
To make a request to Alder Hey please see and follow the instructions on their website: https://alderhey.nhs.uk/about-us/freedom-information