FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/03251
- Request Date
- August 5, 2019
- Subject
- Cancelled Operations - 06/08/2019
- Description
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the total number of operations cancelled for non-clinical reasons, broken down by the cause of the cancellation, for example due to lack of beds, operating theatre capacity, staffing issues, and equipment failures, in 2018/19 (financial year, April to March).
In the total number of operations, broken down by cancellation reason, please include:
• Elective operations cancelled at the last minute. For the purposes of this request, last minute means on the day the patient was due to arrive, after the patient has arrived in hospital or on the day of the operation or surgery.
• Cancelled urgent operations.
If the data is collected by the trust, please also provide a separate total for each year for all operations cancelled for non-clinical reasons, regardless of how soon before the scheduled operation time the cancellation occurred.
- Response
Under section 21 of the Act, we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you. The information you requested is available from our website (below) If you find that the information contained in the website is insufficient. Please let me know.
http://www.bfwh.nhs.uk/our-services/hospital-services/information-governance/