§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will place in the Library figures(a) by district health authority and (b) overall, of the number of operations cancelled on the day of, or the day after, admission to hospital, and the numbers of those patients not readmitted within a month, for each quarter of 1995–96 and the first two quarters of 1996–97. [11624]
§ Mr. Gwilym JonesInformation on the number of cancelled operations is not available centrally. Information on the number of patients admitted and treated more than one month after a cancelled operation is collected by NHS trusts and is given in the following table. A patient treated in a NHS trust may not necessarily be a resident of the health authority in which the trust is situated.