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NHS hospitals should make more use of innovative solutions to tackle the number of people who miss their appointments, Health Minister Simon Burns urged today.
The NHS made good progress last year to reduce the number of missed outpatient appointments by over 250,000 against a background of rising demand. Over 800,000 more patients had an appointment last year.
However, during 2011/12 there were still around 5.5 million missed appointments in the NHS. Overall the NHS carried out nearly 53 million outpatient appointments ? meaning more than one in ten appointments were did-not-attends.
http://mediacentre.dh.gov.uk/2012/0...-urged-to-take-action-on-missed-appointments/
The NHS made good progress last year to reduce the number of missed outpatient appointments by over 250,000 against a background of rising demand. Over 800,000 more patients had an appointment last year.
However, during 2011/12 there were still around 5.5 million missed appointments in the NHS. Overall the NHS carried out nearly 53 million outpatient appointments ? meaning more than one in ten appointments were did-not-attends.
http://mediacentre.dh.gov.uk/2012/0...-urged-to-take-action-on-missed-appointments/