More than 174,000 operations have been cancelled at Welsh hospitals in the past three financial years, it has been revealed.

The statistics, which came from a Freedom of Information request by Plaid Cymru, revealed that an average of 1,346 operations were cancelled every week since 2013-14.

But the Welsh Government has hit back by pointing out that almost half of all procedures are cancelled by patients themselves.

Reported by Wales Online. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.