Out-patients: Attendance
(asked on 24th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many missed NHS appointments there were in (a) Gloucestershire and (b) England in the most recent year for which figures are available.
NHS England publishes did not attend (DNA) rates for outpatient appointments, by National Health Service trusts in England, the data requested is in the following table.
Number of DNAs in Gloucestershire and England Q3 2015/16 to Q2 2016/17
| Q3 2015/16 | Q4 2015/16 | Q1 2016/17 | Q2 2016/17 |
Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust | 122 | 92 | 140 | 124 |
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 7,426 | 6,816 | 7,672 | 7,312 |
England | 1,495,408 | 1,455,446 | 1,499,689 | 1,529,544 |
Source: Quarterly Activity Return of the Hospital Activity Dataset, NHS England