Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
PROPOSALS to fine patients who fail to attend hospital and GP appointments are being discussed.
Their non-show locally is costing millions - money which is badly needed to run daily services at the city's hospitals.
But a leading Derbyshire doctor has said it should be a ?last-resort? option for the NHS ? as it could cost the system more to actually collect the cash.
Missed appointments have cost Derby?s hospitals about ?3.7 million in the past year ? with more than 42,000 people failing to cancel them between 2012 and 2013.
http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Fin...appointments/story-20324530-detail/story.html
Their non-show locally is costing millions - money which is badly needed to run daily services at the city's hospitals.
But a leading Derbyshire doctor has said it should be a ?last-resort? option for the NHS ? as it could cost the system more to actually collect the cash.
Missed appointments have cost Derby?s hospitals about ?3.7 million in the past year ? with more than 42,000 people failing to cancel them between 2012 and 2013.
http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Fin...appointments/story-20324530-detail/story.html