NINETY nine patients had their operations cancelled at the last minute at the Royal Bolton Hospital between April 1997 and January this year, figures reveal.
The patients were either already in hospital waiting for the operation or had the surgery cancelled on the day they were due to be admitted.
The most significant reason for cancellations was a lack of time available in the operating theatre. But the hospital also cancelled 26 operations because there was either no surgeon or no anaesthetist available. All but two of the patients eventually had their operations within one month of the cancellation.
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