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General Practitioners: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of missed GP appointments in i) Broxtowe ii) Nottinghamshire and iii) England.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
4 Jun 2026
Target answer date
8 Jun 2026
Answer
10 Jun 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 4 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of missed GP appointments in i) Broxtowe ii) Nottinghamshire and iii) England.

  2. 8 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 10 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    Missed appointments, recorded as did not attends (DNAs), are collected through General Practice Appointment Data. Nationally, there were 1.27 million DNAs out of 31 million booked appointments, representing 4.1% of all appointments.In Nottinghamshire, the...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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