evidence: Nearly 15,000 hospital appointments were cancelled in April, new figures released by the Health Service Executive to Sinn Féin show. [...] The HSE also said appointments may have been cancelled for unforeseen weather circumstances, infection outbreaks or because of industrial action. [...] The new figures show that 908 elective inpatient admissions were cancelled in April as well as 56 chemotherapy day cases. In the same month, eight dialysis day cases were cancelled as were 588 GI scope day cases. Some 1,391 "other day cases" were cancelled in April on top of 2,887 new outpatient appointments and 8,963 return outpatient appointments.