NHS bed shortages cause late cancellation of cancer surgeries

NHS bed shortages cause late cancellation of cancer surgeries  One of the NHS’s biggest hospital trusts has apologised to a
78-year-old man after it had to cancel his cancer surgery twice in a
month because of a lack of beds. On both occasions the patient, who has
liver cancer, waited in the hospital for six hours and was ready to go
into the operating theatre to have his tumour removed when he was sent
home. Staff at Leicester general hospital explained to him that there was
no high-dependency bed for him if he experienced complications during
the surgery.  The Guardian