HSE criticised as CUH sees highest number of cancellations of any hospital

The  health service could not say why the appointments were cancelled, as the reasons for cancellations are 'recorded within the patient record' in each hospital, and the information is not held centrally by the HSE.

There were 49,225 appointments cancelled in the HSE South-West region between January and September. Of these, 72% of cancellations were in CUH.

Nearly 220,000 medical appointments have been cancelled by the HSE in the first nine months of the year, including 35,000 at Cork University Hospital alone, new figures have revealed.

The beleaguered CUH had the highest number of cancellations so far this year out of any hospital in the country.