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Hospitals: Admissions

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)

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
21 Jan 2026
Target answer date
26 Jan 2026
Answer
28 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    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)

  2. 26 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 28 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    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...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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