30,000 operations were postponed by NHS trusts in the UK in the past year due to a lack of staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One in five surgeries that were cancelled in 2021\u20132022 for non\u2013clinical reasons were due to staff shortages, which were the most common cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Around 158,000 operations were stopped for non-clinical <\/strong><\/a>reasons, according to data obtained by Labour under freedom of information legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n READ MORE: ASDA TO END BLUE LIGHT CARD DISCOUNT FOR NHS AND EMERGENCY WORKERS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Out of those, around 10,000 were critical surgeries, 2,500 were for cancer patients, and 8,000 were for young patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Labour’s analysis found 13,000 operations were postponed because of a shortage of beds, 5,700 owing to a lack of equipment <\/strong><\/a>and 12,600 because of administrative mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 15,500 were moved as theatre lists overran, 9,500 because an emergency case took precedence and 250 were cancelled due to bad weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Labour said the number of cancelled operations has massively risen since 2018\/2019 when 79,000 were cancelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n READ MORE: NHS NURSES TO STRIKE FOR TWO DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The number of operations cancelled owed to staff shortages tripled in that period, jumping from 10,900 to 30,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Staff openings in the NHS<\/strong> <\/a>are at a record high, NHS Digital data shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The vacancy rate across the NHS in England – the number of vacancies as a proportion of planned staffing levels – stood at 9.7 percent at the end of September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n READ MORE: HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF NHS NURSES TO GO ON STRIKE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 133,000 full-time employees (FTE) posts are vacant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the interim, an average of 54,581 NHS staff were off sick in England<\/strong><\/a> in the seven days to 4 December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said: “Patients are forced to wait longer for vital operations because the Conservatives have failed to train enough staff over the past 12 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Need Career Advice? Get employment skills advice at all levels of your career<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “Having operations cancelled causes huge disruption to patients, and prevents them from being able to get on with their lives.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said Labour would “tackle this problem at its root”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We will train a new generation of doctors and nurses so patients get the treatment they need when they need it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We will abolish non-doms to pay for it because patients need treatment more than the wealthiest need a tax break, and if you live and work in Britain you should pay your taxes here.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source<\/strong>: Sky News<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on YouTube<\/strong><\/a>, Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, and Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 30,000 procedures were postponed by NHS trusts in the past year due to a lack of manpower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,415],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-33313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-business-news","category-uk-employment-news","tag-nhs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}