TY - JOUR T1 - Non-attendance at hospital appointments is poorly communicated to general practice, despite links with deprivation and safeguarding concerns JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2017-314127 SP - edpract-2017-314127 AU - Amanda J Friend Y1 - 2017/10/22 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/early/2017/10/23/archdischild-2017-314127.abstract N2 - Quantitative sectionSetting: A children’s hospital and referring general practices in South-West England.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 sectionStudy 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.5.7% of children failed to attend their hospital appointments. Rates were highest for endocrinology, dermatology and neurology appointments (11.4%, 11.2% and … ER -