The Bradford Telegraph and Argus report:

More than 83,000 hospital appointments were missed by patients in the Bradford district last year, costing one NHS Trust more than £1 million, the Telegraph & Argus can reveal.

A Freedom of Information request by the T&A has shown that 70,430 people failed to turn up for appointments at Bradford Royal Infirmarywhile 12,871 appointments were missed at Airedale Hospital in 2012.

The BRI figures have risen dramatically from 2011 when there were 63,013 misses recorded – and despite the waste of time and resources there is no penalty system.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.