Question follow-through · 59642
Out-patients: Attendance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS appointments were missed in the last 12-months.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jun 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
12 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS appointments were missed in the last 12-months.
16 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Department does not hold data on the number of missed appointments across the whole National Health Service. In the year from April 2024 to March 2025, the latest provisional data indicates that there were 8.1 million outpatient appointments not atten...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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