{"id":605775,"date":"2025-12-01T18:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/605775\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:30:14","slug":"knee-surgery-cancellations-costing-nhs-millions-says-bristol-university-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/605775\/","title":{"rendered":"Knee surgery cancellations costing NHS millions says Bristol University study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The study examined cancellations across six NHS hospitals in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, between April 2018 and March 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During this period, 17,223 total knee replacement operations were completed and 9,403 were cancelled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The research team, led by academics at the National Institute for Health and Care Research at Bristol Biomedical Research Centre, said 25% of the cancellations were less than 24 hours before surgery, and 60% were within two to 14 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The study examined cancellations across six NHS hospitals in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, between April 2018&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-605775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115645738105680705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}