About 2,500 cancer surgeries were called off due to staff shortages, while 10,000 urgent operations were cancelled.
NHS trusts had to call off 30,000 operations last year because there were not enough staff for them to go ahead, data has revealed.
Of those, about 10,000 were urgent operations, 2,500 were operations for cancer patients, and 8,000 were operations on children. The number of operations cancelled due to staff shortages tripled in that period, jumping from 10,900 to 30,000.The vacancy rate across the NHS in England - the number of vacancies as a proportion of planned staffing levels - stood at 9.7% at the end of September.Meanwhile, an average of 54,581 NHS staff were off sick in England in the seven days to 4 December.
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