The NHS crisis in five charts

Unless you’ve been truly hibernating so far this year, you will have heard that thousands of NHS operations have been cancelled. But what is the NHS winter crisis? Here are five charts that can shed some light. The number of cancelled operations is on the rise Hospitals across the country are having to cancel elective operations. These are the operations that are planned in advance, and they are  cancelled because of an increase in emergencies which take up staff time and hospital space. The data on cancelled operations is published quarterly, so we don’t know the number of cancellations for this month, but we can look at the data historically.   if("undefined"==typeof window.datawrapper)window.datawrapper={};window.datawrapper["8YOUR"]={},window.datawrapper["8YOUR"].embedDeltas={"100":510,"200":442,"300":417,"400":400,"500":400,"600":400,"700":400,"800":400,"900":400,"1000":400},window.datawrapper["8YOUR"].iframe=document.getElementById("datawrapper-chart-8YOUR"),window.datawrapper["8YOUR"].iframe.style.height=window.datawrapper["8YOUR"].embedDeltas[Math.min(1e3,Math.max(100*Math.floor(window.datawrapper["8YOUR"].iframe.offsetWidth/100),100))]+"px",window.addEventListener("message",function(a){if("undefined"!=typeof a.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var b in a.data["datawrapper-height"])if("8YOUR"==b)window.datawrapper["8YOUR"].iframe.style.height=a.data["datawrapper-height"][b]+"px"}); As we can see, quarter four (January to March) has a high rate of cancellations ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - Category: UK Health Authors: Tags: P.S data health health care Health Funding Crisis NHS NHS funding winter pressures on NHS Source Type: news