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Old 23-01-2011, 09:50   #50
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Re: Crisis At Royal Blackburn

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington View Post
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.
I started a thread on that a few months back and got my ears chewed of Margaret I forget now but the money it costs by missed appointments is ridiculous to say the least, I can honestly say I have never miss one appointment in all the time I've been attending hospital I always try to give notice if I have to cancel, think the nearest I ever came was last year when I started with a bad chest infection the day prior to an appointment and cancelled right away
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