Hospitals: Admissions
Commons · Question 107467 · Tabled 21 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 28 Jan 2026
Question
Asked by Matt Vickers
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
Answered by Karin Smyth, 28 Jan 2026
Appointments 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...