Missed Appointments
The practice is aware that it is becoming more difficult to get an appointment with the doctor of your choice. The number of patients registered in this practice is increasing every month but the number of rooms and size of the building remains the same!
Extra doctors have been employed but we cannot increase the number of consulting rooms.
Every month hundreds of appointments are missed by patients. These DNA’S (Did Not Attend) or missed appointments are preventing other patients from seeing the doctor of their choice.
We will be asking patients who persistently fail to turn up for their appointments to look for a GP elsewhere. We are always grateful to the patients who, when they realise they cannot keep an appointment, phone or contact us to tell reception that they will not be coming. This lets that appointment slot be used for another patient or an emergency.