Hospitals cancelled record number of urgent operations last year | The Guardian - Vox Political
The latest figures mean that 17,598 patients have had their urgent operation cancelled over the past five years [Image: Christopher Furlong/Getty]. Hospitals in England cancelled 4,093 urgent procedures during 2016, equivalent to 341 per month. This was 8% more than the 3,777 scrapped in 2015 and
Mike Sivier
