FoI Number
2023-065
Subject
Miscellaneous Questions
Date Received
03/05/2023
Request and Response

1. The number of hospital meals binned every day and the cost of doing so. Please provide information for the last 12 months and break it down by day, and month.

See attached spreadsheet 2 & attached spreadsheet 3

2. The number of operations cancelled due to bed shortages. Please provide information for the last 5 years, broken down by month.

2 – both in July 2022

3. How much has been spent on hospital taxis over the last five years? Please break this down by month and year.

See attached spreadsheet 4

4. How much money is owed to health boards by overseas patients not entitled to free treatment? Break down where they are from, how much is owed, and how much money has been written off for the last five years.

Nil