evidence: Hospitals are cancelling more than 22,000 appointments every day despite the Government’s pledge to clear the NHS backlog, The Telegraph can reveal. [...] Some patients’ appointments are being cancelled multiple times, the data, revealed through freedom of information requests to English hospital trusts, also shows. [...] Official figures released by NHS Digital this week from all NHS trusts in England show one in 10 (9.5 per cent) appointments, 11.6 million, were cancelled by a hospital in 2021-22. In 2011-12, 6.3 per cent of appointments were cancelled (5.8 million).