Table 1.

Observed number of procedures vs expected number of procedures. Class 1, emergency surgery within 72 h; Class 2, urgent surgery within 4 weeks; Class 3, semi-urgent surgery within 3 months; Class 4, elective surgery over 3 months. CI, confidence interval.

	Class 1		Class 2		Class 3		Class 4
	Observed, N	Percentage of expected (95% CI)	Observed, N	Percentage of expected (95% CI)	Observed, N	Percentage of expected (95% CI)	Observed, N	Percentage of expected (95% CI)
January 2020	72 528	99.8 (92.6–108.2)	35 067	106 (95.4–119.2)	216 455	101.5 (91.6–113.7)	75 195	98.0 (84.0–117.5)
February 2020	67 141	92.4 (85.7–100.1)	31 839	96.2 (86.6–108.2)	201 663	97.7 (87.9–110.0)	72 343	90.3 (77.9–107.3)
March 2020	62 355	85.8 (79.6–93.0)	29 629	89.5 (80.5–100.7)	149 742	69.5 (62.8–77.8)	44 496	57.3 (49.7–69.5)
April 2020	48 798	67.1 (62.3–72.8)	16 525	49.9 (44.9–56.1)	37 120	18.4 (16.5–20.7)	1620	2.3 (1.9–2.7)
May 2020	59 597	82.0 (76.1–88.9)	18 012	54.4 (48.9–61.2)	47 274	22.9 (20.6–25.8)	3542	4.5 (3.8–5.5)
June 2020	64 178	88.3 (82.0–95.7)	21 772	65.7 (59.1–73.9)	77 975	38.2 (34.4–43.1)	11 033	14.1 (12.0–17.3)
July 2020	70 633	97.2 (90.2–105.3)	24 988	75.4 (67.8–84.8)	113 141	53.2 (48.0–59.6)	23 619	30.3 (25.6–36.9)
August 2020	68 898	94.8 (88.0–102.8)	23 183	69.9 (62.9–78.6)	118 748	59.1 (53.0–66.8)	31 785	40.7 (34.3–49.7)
September 2020	68 942	94.9 (88.0–102.8)	27 145	81.8 (73.6–92.0)	155 569	74.9 (67.5–84.3)	46 239	59.2 (50.1–72.3)
October 2020	67 314	92.6 (86.0–100.4)	27 933	84.1 (75.7–94.7)	168 026	79.4 (71.6–89.1)	53 518	68.6 (58.0–83.7)
November 2020	62 125	85.5 (79.3–92.6)	27 007	81.3 (73.2–91.5)	164 060	79.4 (71.4–89.4)	50 154	64.2 (54.4–78.5)
December 2020	51 221	70.5 (65.4–76.2)	24 313	73.2 (65.8–82.3)	133 035	67.4 (60.4–76.3)	35 179	45.1 (38.2–55.0)