Out-patients: Attendance

(asked on 12th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the NHS was of missed appointments in 2024.


Answered by
Karin Smyth Portrait
Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 23rd June 2025

The Department does not hold data on the overall cost to the National Health Service of missed appointments.

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