Ophthalmic Services
(asked on 13th July 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of people that have not attended their outpatient ophthalmology appointment since the start of 2020.
A count of outpatient appointments by ‘attend or did not attend’ type for ophthalmology in England from 1 January 2020 is provided in the following table. Data provided are not a count of individual patients as a patient may have had more than one appointment within the time period. Data for 2020 are provisional and subject to change until the finalised data are published:
Attend or did not attend’ type codes and description | January | February | March | April | May |
Appointment cancelled by, or on behalf of, the patient | 83,550 | 78,728 | 115,562 | 52,958 | 25,707 |
Did not attend – no advance warning given | 63,954 | 54,918 | 61,186 | 20,496 | 17,021 |
Appointment cancelled or postponed by the Health Care Provider | 74,745 | 71,466 | 140,989 | 203,933 | 112,541 |
Seen, having attended on time or, if late, before the relevant care professional was ready to see the patient | 759,599 | 688,583 | 533,189 | 256,201 | 269,040 |
Arrived late, after the relevant care professional was ready to see the patient, but was seen | 9,549 | 8,543 | 6,121 | 2,092 | 2,421 |
Did not attend – patient arrived late and could not be seen | 522 | 158 | 205 | 148 | 127 |
Not known | 5,031 | 5,199 | 7,969 | 8,729 | 6,354 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital