General Practitioners and Hospitals: Attendance
(asked on 6th September 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of missed GP and hospital appointments in (a) England, (b) Romford and (c) the London Borough of Havering since 2016.
The information requested on missed appointments in general practice is not held in the format requested. From July 2020 to July 2022, the estimated number of missed general practice appointments in England, excluding COVID-19 vaccinations, was 26.91 million and 1.15 million in North East London Integrated Care Board.
Data for missed hospital appointments is not collected at constituency level. The following table shows the number of ‘did not attends’ England and the London Borough of Havering in each year from 2015/16 to 2020/21, the most recent data available.
Year | England | Havering |
2015/16 | 7,519,829 | 38,210 |
2016/17 | 7,938,009 | 40,125 |
2017/18 | 7,984,183 | 39,850 |
2018/19 | 7,919,660 | 37,910 |
2019/20 | 7,695,040 | 37,080 |
2020/21 | 5,640,749 | 22,750 |
Source: NHS Digital