[Margaret Pilkington]

I think that doctors should be able to charge those patients who make an appointment and don't turn up for it(if they ring and cancel, then that is different).......Hospitals should also be able to do the same.
I was involved in a pre-operative clinic and the number of people who just didn't bother to turn up was unbelievable. In the end I used to phone them and ask them why they hadn't attended....thing was, if they didn't attend then they didn't get their operation.