Patients who miss GP appointments die earlier: study
Even an occasional no-show is bad for your health
Patients who occasionally miss a GP appointment — even just one a year – have a higher rate of mortality compared with those who always show up, an analysis of more than 800,000 patients suggests.
In a UK study of more than 11 million appointments, patients who missed one or two appointments a year had a mortality rate twice as high as those who never missed them.
