You are here

  • Home
  • Archive
  • Volume 103, Issue 6
  • Non-attendance at hospital appointments is poorly communicated to general practice, despite links with deprivation and safeguarding concerns

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Structured abstracts of sentinel articles: Picket
Non-attendance at hospital appointments is poorly communicated to general practice, despite links with deprivation and safeguarding concerns
  1. Amanda J Friend1,2
  1. 1 Department of Paediatrics, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK
  2. 2 School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Amanda J Friend, Department of Paediatrics, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds LS1 3EX, UK; amanda.friend{at}nhs.net

https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2017-314127

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Study question

    Quantitative section

    Setting: A children’s hospital and referring general practices in South-West England.1

    Patients: All children newly referred to the above children’s hospital as outpatients.

    Exposure: Non-attendance at hospital appointments.

    Outcomes: Likelihood of coming from deprived background or having a child protection alert on file.

    Qualitative section

    Study cohort: General practitioners from practices with notably high or low non-attendance rates at hospital appointments.

    Approach: Semistructured interviews.

    Themes: Communication of non-attendance from secondary to primary care, coding of non-attendance within primary care records, primary care approaches to non-attendance at hospital appointments.

    Main results

    5.7% of children failed to attend their hospital appointments. Rates were highest for endocrinology, dermatology and neurology appointments (11.4%, 11.2% …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Contributors The abstract and commentary were both written by AJF.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.