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WORCESTERSHIRE Acute Hospitals Trust potentially lost more than £3 million due to thousands of missed appointments through the pandemic, figures show. The failed appointments waste time and heap pressure on consultants who already face “extraordinary demand” due to the virus, says the British Medical Association. NHS Digital data shows that in the 11 months from April last year, there were 19,865 outpatient appointments which people did not show up for. It means out of 514,220 booked sessions, 4% were unattended. And with the average outpatient appointment costing £160 – as estimated by several NHS trusts – the no-shows may have cost Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust around £3.2 million. Across England s health providers, 5 million appointments were missed during the same period to the end of February, around 7% of those booked – wasting the NHS an estimated £760 million. Dr Rob Harwood, BMA consultants committee chairman, said it was “concerning” to

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