More than 100,000 NHS operations were cancelled for non-clinical reasons last year, the Conservatives have claimed.
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said the figures, obtained through a freedom of information request, showed that NHS staff were "continually hampered by Labour's top-down targets".
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