Craig Whittaker – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Craig Whittaker on 2016-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP appointments were missed in (a) Calderdale and (b) England in each year since 2010; and what the estimated cost of those missed appointments was to the NHS.

Alistair Burt

The number of general practitioner (GP) appointments that are available in Calderdale and England is not held.

The number of GP appointments that are missed is not collected centrally, however, figures from NHS England suggest that more than 12 million GP appointments are missed each year in the United Kingdom (there is no individual breakdown for Calderdale or England separately), which costs in excess of £162 million per year.