Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 13 Oct 2025 | Updated: 0 days ago
Cancelled Elective Operations
Dataset
Documentation
Description:
Cancelled elective operation data is signed off locally and then supplied to NHS England
by NHS providers (NHS Trusts and other providers). This report presents a summary of
the number of last minute cancelled operations for non-clinical reasons and, of those, the
number subsequently re-admitted within 28 days, during the quarter.
The Cancelled Elective Operations collection was paused in April 2020 due to the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) and the need to release capacity across the NHS to support the response. The collection resumed for Quarter 3 2021/22 data (published in February 2022). For further information on this and our other suspended collections, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/covid-19-and-the-production-of-statistics/
Spatial Coverage:
England
Data Use Limitations:
NO RESTRICTION
Coverage
Temporal
Start Date:
01 April 1996
Frequency:
QUARTERLY
Provenance
Collection Situation:
NHS Trusts
Access and Governance
Usage
Data Use Requirements:
NO REQUIREMENTS
Access
Jurisdiction:
England
Data Controller:
NHS England
Format and Standards
Languages:
ENGLISH
Data Format:
- Unstructured text
- Database
Additional Information Governance
Confidentiality Risk:
Low risk
Availability Risk:
Low risk
Integrity Risk:
Low risk
Origin
Name:
Data Catalogue