More than 2,000 planned operations were cancelled at short-notice in August, according to new figures released on Tuesday.

Data from Public Health Scotland (PHS) shows 2,110 operations were cancelled the day before or on the day the patient was meant to be treated.

That was 8.5% of all planned operations, the same figure as the previous month but slightly higher than the pre-Covid figure in 2019 of 8.4%.

Some 3% of operations were cancelled by the hospital for clinical reasons, another 3% were cancelled by the patient, and 2.1% were cancelled by the hospital due to capacity or non-clinical reasons. A total of 0.3% of cancellations were for “other reasons”.

Overall, the number of operations taking place across the NHS increased by 3.1% to 24,750 compared to the same time last year.

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