Out-patients: Attendance
(asked on 20th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many post-surgery follow-up appointments were missed by patients in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
This question was answered on 26th April 2016
Information is not collected centrally in the format requested.
Did not attend rates for outpatient appointments in England are collected by NHS England in the Quarterly Activity Return. This data distinguishes between first and follow-up appointments but does not distinguish between types of appointments, so it is not possible to identify how many missed appointments relate to post-surgery.