PATIENTS have missed nearly 1 million hospital and surgical appointments across NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde since 2011, the Evening Times can reveal.

The figures, obtained using a series of coordinated Freedom of Information requests, show patients have failed to show up to a staggering 901,939 appointments at Glasgow’s hospitals in the last five years.

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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.