§ Sir Patrick McNair-WilsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will publish figures setting out the number of patients who failed to attend national health service hospitals after being granted firm appointments, as a percentage of all appointments made, for each region for the year to March 1991;
(2) if he will publish figures setting out the number of patients who failed to attend national health service hospitals after being granted firm in-patient appointments for the year to March 1991, expressed as numerical totals and as percentages of all such appointments made for each region.
§ Mr. DorrellInformation on numbers of people failing to attend for in-patient admissions is not collected centrally. The available information for out-patient departments is given in the table.