HC Deb 15 January 1996 vol 269 cc384-5W
Mr. Morgan

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many surgical patients, broken down as to in-patients and day cases, had their operations(a) cancelled or (b) transferred to English hospitals as a result of the blood transfusion shortage since 8 December 1995; and if he will make a statement. [8734]

Mr. Hague

Information on patients being transferred to England is not held centrally. No emergency operations were cancelled in Welsh hospitals; only those patients requiring group O blood had operations deferred. This was for a limited period of 48 hours.