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registered interest
date	13/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Surgery
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the reasons for the variation in elective surgery rates among the most affluent and least affluent areas of England recorded in the recent survey by the Health Service Journal.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL2572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2015 answer text <p>NHS England has advised it is aware of the findings of the survey.</p><br /><p>The NHS Atlas of Variation in Healthcare, published in September 2015 by Public Health England, NHS England and NHS Right Care, aims to identify unwarranted variation, and the causes of variation, in the provision of health services. Linked to this, the NHS Right Care programme will advise local health systems on variation in elective surgery intervention rates and support them to look at reasons for this and identify any changes needed.</p><br /><p>The NHS Atlas of Variation in Healthcare is too large to attach to this reply, but can be found online at the following:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.rightcare.nhs.uk/atlas/RC_nhsAtlas3_HIGH_150915.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.rightcare.nhs.uk/atlas/RC_nhsAtlas3_HIGH_150915.pdf</a></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 26/10/2015 17:50:16 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

350109

registered interest
date	11/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Surgery
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the number of cancelled operations in the National Health Service in the final quarter of 2013–14 was the highest ever recorded.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2015 answer text <p>NHS England collects the number of operations cancelled at the ‘last minute’ for non-clinical reasons on a quarterly basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of cancelled elective operations in the final quarter of 2013-14 was not the highest ever recorded. The highest number of cancelled elective operations was recorded in quarter 4 2000-01.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Cancelled elective operations as a percentage of elective admissions are stable. In both 2009-10 and 2013-14 cancelled elective operations represented 0.9% of elective admissions, despite a 546,000 increase in the number of elective admissions in this period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Health Service should do everything it can to reduce cancellations and keep them to an absolute minimum. Where this is unavoidable, patients should receive treatment as soon as possible. This is reinforced by a pledge in the NHS Constitution for all patients who have operations cancelled, on or after the day of admission (including the day of surgery), for non-clinical reasons to be offered another binding date within 28 days, or the patient’s treatment to be funded at the time and hospital of the patient’s choice.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 19/06/2015 10:58:30 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

350110

registered interest
date	11/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Surgery
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to reduce the number of cancelled operations in the National Health Service.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2015 answer text <p>NHS England collects the number of operations cancelled at the ‘last minute’ for non-clinical reasons on a quarterly basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of cancelled elective operations in the final quarter of 2013-14 was not the highest ever recorded. The highest number of cancelled elective operations was recorded in quarter 4 2000-01.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Cancelled elective operations as a percentage of elective admissions are stable. In both 2009-10 and 2013-14 cancelled elective operations represented 0.9% of elective admissions, despite a 546,000 increase in the number of elective admissions in this period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Health Service should do everything it can to reduce cancellations and keep them to an absolute minimum. Where this is unavoidable, patients should receive treatment as soon as possible. This is reinforced by a pledge in the NHS Constitution for all patients who have operations cancelled, on or after the day of admission (including the day of surgery), for non-clinical reasons to be offered another binding date within 28 days, or the patient’s treatment to be funded at the time and hospital of the patient’s choice.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL425 question first answered 19/06/2015 12:27:02 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

350111

registered interest
date	11/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Surgery
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why there has been an increase in the number of cancelled operations in the National Health Service since 2009–10.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2015 answer text <p>NHS England collects the number of operations cancelled at the ‘last minute’ for non-clinical reasons on a quarterly basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of cancelled elective operations in the final quarter of 2013-14 was not the highest ever recorded. The highest number of cancelled elective operations was recorded in quarter 4 2000-01.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Cancelled elective operations as a percentage of elective admissions are stable. In both 2009-10 and 2013-14 cancelled elective operations represented 0.9% of elective admissions, despite a 546,000 increase in the number of elective admissions in this period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Health Service should do everything it can to reduce cancellations and keep them to an absolute minimum. Where this is unavoidable, patients should receive treatment as soon as possible. This is reinforced by a pledge in the NHS Constitution for all patients who have operations cancelled, on or after the day of admission (including the day of surgery), for non-clinical reasons to be offered another binding date within 28 days, or the patient’s treatment to be funded at the time and hospital of the patient’s choice.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL424 question first answered 19/06/2015 12:27:02 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath