NHS trusts cancelled hundreds of cancer procedures over winter

More than half of trusts in survey cancelled at least one operation between December and February

Hundreds of cancer operations were cancelled by English NHS trusts during winter, prompting a warning that delays to procedures could affect a patient’s chance of survival.

A poll of 81 acute NHS trusts by the Health Service Journal (HSJ) found more than half were forced to cancel at least one operation between December and February, with 530 scrapped in total.

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