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Surgery: Eastbourne

Volume 459: debated on Wednesday 18 April 2007

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Mr. Waterson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many Eastbourne Downs NHS Primary Care Trust patients had their operation cancelled on the day of the operation in each of the last five years, broken down by type of operation. (130970)

Andy Burnham

The following table details the number of last minute operations cancelled for non-medical reasons at East Sussex Hospitals National Health Service Trust from 2002-03 to 2006-07.

Number of last minute cancellations for non clinical reasons

2002-03

302

2003-04

375

2004-05

632

2005-06

491

2006-07

93

Note:

Data for 2006-07 are for quarter 1 to quarter 3 only.

Source:

Department of Health dataset QMCO