Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 107467
Hospitals: Admissions
Tabled: 21 January 2026
Answered: 28 January 2026
Question
Matt Vickers
Conservative — Stockton West
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many planned inpatient admissions expressed as a total number and as a percentage of all inpatient admissions were a) cancelled by hospitals and NHS authorities, b) cancelled by patients and c)
Answer
Karin SmythAppointments cancelled by hospitals or other National Health Service authorities do not appear in statistics as completed appointments. For admitted patients, the Department does not hold data on the cause of cancellations or where patients did not attend...
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