General Practitioners: Attendance
Commons · Question 6885 · Tabled 4 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 10 Jun 2026
Question
Asked by Juliet Campbell
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.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 10 Jun 2026
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...