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Socialized Medicine: England's NHS cancelled 70,000 operations last year due to lack of resource

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The numbers, obtained by the Daily Mirror through Freedom of Information requests, were described by Labour as 'nothing short of a scandal'.

And the true total could be higher, as only 138 out of 170 NHS trusts responded to the paper's query.

In total, the trusts which replied reported 214,000 non-clinical cancellations in 2017/18, up 9% on the previous year and 29% on the 166,000 recorded in 2013/14.

Of these, some 29,869 were caused by a lack of beds – up 59% on the 18,783 seen in 2013/14. Staff shortages were blamed for 29,550 cancellations – up 73%. And 10,334 procedures were halted due to equipment or theatres being unavailable – a rise of 48%.


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