Non-attendance of appointments costs the NHS thousands of working hours each week. In January 2025, Holt Medical Practice offered:
2834 GP appointments
3479 Nurse appointments
Thank you to everyone who promptly attended their appointments.
Unfortunately, 168 patients failed to turn up for their appointments and gave us no prior notice. This amounted to 42 hours and 10 minutes of wasted clinical time!
Please * let us know in advance of your appointment* if you know you are not going to be able to make it so we can reallocate these appointments to patients who need them.
If you receive text message reminders, you can cancel at any time of day or night by replying with the word CANCEL.
Wasted clinical time per month:
- January 2025: 42 hours and 10 minutes
- December 2024: 48 hours and 15 minutes
- November 2024: 52 hours and 25 minutes
- October 2024: 37 hours
- September 2024: 37 hours and 54 minutes
- August 2024: 38 hours and 36 minutes
- July 2024: 57 hours and 15 minutes
- June 2024: 47 hours and 35 minutes
- May 2024: 44 hours and 22 minutes
- April 2024: 40 hours and 25 minutes
- March 2024: 33 hours and 35 minutes
- February 2024: 38 hours and 37 minutes
- January 2024: 51 hours and 32 minutes
- December 2023: 42 hours and 30 minutes
- November 2023: 35 hours and 45 minutes
- October 2023: 53 hours and 52 minutes
- September 2023: 59 hours and 5 minutes
- August 2023: 55 hours and 50 minutes
- July 2023: 40 hours
- June 2023: 66 hours and 25 minutes
- May 2023: 71 hours and 40 minutes
- April 2023: 38 hours and 21 minutes
- March 2023: 39 hours and 8 minutes
- February 2023: 29 hours and 20 minutes
- January 2023: 40 hours and 30 minutes
- December 2022: 51 hours 4 minutes
- November 2022: 52 hours 48 minutes
- October 2022: 53 hours 53 minutes
Total over last twenty eight months: 1299 hours and 52minutes of wasted time which is approximately 7799 appointments.