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Mr. Levitt
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what measures are being taken to reduce the number of patients who fail to attend NHS appointments. [4901]
Mr. Milburn
The Department of Health has supported a series of regional seminars to raise awareness of the issues in the National Health Service about patients who do not attend (DNA) their out-patient appointments and to share good practice. We will also be publishing shortly DNA figures for individual trusts in the 1996–97 NHS Performance Tables.