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Operations (Postponements)

Volume 184: debated on Thursday 31 January 1991

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To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many operations due to take place within hospitals under the Lothian health board have been postponed in each month from October 1990 to the most recent available date.

[holding answer 29 January 1991]: The number of operations postponed by hospitals in Lothian during the period October-December 1990 was as follows:

Number
October16
November133
December263
TOTAL512
The corresponding total for the same period in the previous year was 590.