§ Mrs. BeckettTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many operations were cancelled on the day of or after the date the patient was due to be admitted to hospital by regional health authority, district health authority and in total; and how many were not re-admitted with one month during each quarter since March 1993.
§ Mr. MaloneThis information was not collected in the form requested until April 1994 when the national patients charter standard on cancelled operations was improved so that a patient whose operation is cancelled for non-medical reasons on the day of, or after, admission is admitted for treatment within one month of the first cancellation. The information from 1 April 1994 will be placed in the Library. Performance against this patients charter standard is being kept under review.