Submitted on Wednesday 27th January 2016
Rejected on Monday 1st February 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Fine people for non-attendance at hospital appointments.
Hundreds of pounds and hours a week are wasted by people not attending their hospital appointments, which also has the knock on effect of making waiting lists longer. This is a situation which needs to be dealt with pro-actively and people should be fined for non-attendance.
The NHS is in financial crisis but people are making this worse by not attending their appointments. Last week over a thousand appointments were not attended at the QE hospital in Birmingham. If each appointment is for 20 minutes, then that is 333 wasted hours in a week at what cost? It is time for people to accept responsibility for wasting funds and they should be fined for not attending unless they have a verifiable reason, it does not take long to call to cancel.
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