Out-patients: Attendance
(asked on 23rd January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS of missed appointments in (a) Gloucestershire and (b) England in the most recent year for which figures are available.
This question was answered on 26th January 2017
This information is not held centrally. However, the most recently published data from the Department’s annual collection of reference costs from National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts estimated the national average unit cost of a consultant-led outpatient attendance at £156 for a first appointment and £125 for a follow-up appointment in 2015-16.