Labours' care minister has insisted the government has 'no plans' to introduce fines for missed NHS appointments, despite claims Wes Streeting is tabling the idea.
Labours' care minister has insisted the government has "no plans" to introduce fines for missed NHS appointments, despite claims Wes Streeting is tabling the idea. The Health Minister is quoted as saying he would be more "open-minded" to the concept of fines for no-show patients should NHS reforms fail to reduce the number of missed appointments.
The fines would not be effective, the minister insisted, as "sometimes people have an emergency" and when they "try to get through to their GP’s surgery and they can’t." He continued that there are "missed appointments" through "no fault of their own".It comes as the latest figures revealed that there were eight million missed hospital appointments last year - equating to one in 15 appointments.
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