Cancellation of operations : Whether physicians registered cancelled operations as a complication.
Two-thirds of NHS trusts are in deficit and have cancelled operations and extended waiting times.
Some hospitals have been forced to use rehabilitation gyms and neurological wards for emergency beds, and others have cancelled operations.
I am worried that only publishing figures monthly on indicators like waits in A&E and cancelled operations won't provide this clarity quickly enough".
During the winter months, the hospital can even be required to report daily on politically sensitive indicators such as trolley waits and cancelled operations.
We've all seen front pages about the continuing degradation of the NHS – be it on waiting times, too few beds, cancelled operations, or doctor shortages.
The risks of longer waiting times, the clogging up of primary care services, cancelled operations, instability in some major hospitals, and sinking staff morale looms closer.
Managers are also painfully aware of the signs of strain in the NHS, as witnessed by reports of shockingly awful care of older people, cancelled operations and sub-optimal maternity and other services.
He wanted to set up a nurse-led preoperative assessment service that would free up time for the doctors who previously led the assessments, reduce cancelled operations (and costs), and improve patient care.
Mr Blair took the extra precaution of saying that there were still bound to be problems, as indeed there have been: some hospitals have cancelled operations, and there have been a few of the infamous trolley waits, though not nearly so many as last year.
The figures NHS England will now publish also include data on the number of ambulances that have had to queue outside hospitals because the A&E is full, ambulances diverted elsewhere for the same reason, availability of beds and cancelled operations.
