Surgery cancellations

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Dear Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust,

This is a FOIA request about cancellations to surgery.

1. For the period 01/06/2016 to 31/05/2017 please state:

a) how many hours of surgery were schedule to take place
b) how many hours of surgery were cancelled.

If you consider that some information is exempt from disclosure please cite the section of the FOIA you are using to redact information. Please also ensure any redactions you make are sufficiently granular and do not withhold information on a 'blanket' basis.

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I would prefer to receive all information in electronic format and in machine-readable formats where applicable. I would be grateful if you could acknowledge receipt of this request.

Thank you,

Lucas Amin

LG, Foi (LEWISHAM AND GREENWICH NHS TRUST), Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust



 

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LG, Foi (LEWISHAM AND GREENWICH NHS TRUST), Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

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Dear Mr Amin

I acknowledge receipt of your request for information received by the
Trust on 01 June 2017. At this time I would like to take the opportunity
to seek clarification.

You requested,

1. For the period 01/06/2016 to 31/05/2017 please state:  

a) how many hours of surgery were schedule to take place

b) how many hours of surgery were cancelled.

Can you confirm that by surgery you are referring to operations? If so,
information about cancelled operations is available from the website of
NHS England

Cancelled Elective Operations:
[1]https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/st...

Cancelled Urgent Operations:
[2]https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/st...

If you need information in addition to this please confirm if you data for
urgent or elective operations?

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Yours sincerely

 

Alison Benson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Alison Benson

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

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Dear Alison,

Thank you for those very helpful links. That does indeed answer my request. I would now like to submit a new request:

Could you please provide copies of all the data which the trust submitted to NHS England that informed its data series on cancelled elective operations and cancelled urgent operations for the year 2016/17?

Thank you,
Lucas

LG, Foi (LEWISHAM AND GREENWICH NHS TRUST), Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Dear Mr Amin

I acknowledge receipt of your request for information received by the Trust on 14 June 2017. Your request will be dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and you should expect your response by 13 July 2017.

Should we require further clarification from you, we will contact you about this as soon as possible.

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Yours sincerely

Ryan Pooley
Freedom of Information & RA Manager

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Directorate of Nursing and Clinical Quality
RA Team/Information Governance
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Lewisham High Street
Lewisham
London
SE13 6LH

020 8333 3000 Ext 8838

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LG, Foi (LEWISHAM AND GREENWICH NHS TRUST), Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

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Dear Mr Amin,

 

Apologies for the delay in responding to your request.

 

Please find attached the response to your Freedom of Information request.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Ryan Pooley

Freedom of Information & RA Manager

 

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Directorate of Nursing and Clinical Quality

RA Team/Information Governance

1^st Floor

Estates Building

Lewisham High Street

Lewisham

London

SE13 6LH

 

020 8333 3000 Ext 8838

 

 

 

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