Skip to main content
  • Language
    • Afrikaans
    • Albanian
    • Arabic
    • Armenian
    • Azerbaijani
    • Basque
    • Belarusian
    • Bengali
    • Bulgarian
    • Catalan
    • Chinese (Simplified)
    • Chinese (Traditional)
    • Croatian
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • Esperanto
    • Estonian
    • Filipino
    • Finnish
    • French
    • Galician
    • Georgian
    • German
    • Greek
    • Gujarati
    • Haitian Creole
    • Hebrew
    • Hindi
    • Hungarian
    • Icelandic
    • Indonesian
    • Irish
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Kannada
    • Korean
    • Lao
    • Latin
    • Latvian
    • Lithuanian
    • Macedonian
    • Malay
    • Maltese
    • Norwegian
    • Persian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Serbian
    • Slovak
    • Slovenian
    • Spanish
    • Swahili
    • Swedish
    • Tamil
    • Telugu
    • Thai
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian
    • Urdu
    • Vietnamese
    • Welsh
    • Yiddish
  • Font Size
    • Increase Font Size
    • Decrease Font Size
    • Reset Font Size
Leander Family Practice
Search
Show Main Menu
  • Home
  • Practice Information
    • Care Data
    • Change of Personal Details
    • Complaints
    • Doctors and Staff
    • Friends and Family Test
    • GP Net Earnings
    • Non-NHS Services
    • Overseas Travel
    • Patient Participation Group
    • Policies and Procedures
    • Practice Leaflet
    • Registering with the Practice
    • Safe Surgeries
    • Surgery Times
    • Test Results
  • Services
    • Online Services
    • Appointments
    • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Annual Review Questionnaire
    • Clinics
    • External Services
    • NHS Health Resources
    • Pharmacy First
    • Vaccinations & Immunisations
  • Prescriptions
  • Information & Advice
    • Carers
    • Information For Parents
    • Maternity Pack
    • Medicine in Schools
    • Next Of Kin
    • Screening
    • Sepsis Awareness
    • Sick Certificate
    • Translated Health Information
    • Useful Numbers
  • News
  • Contact & Location

Did Not Attend Policy

Missed appointments are classified as ‘Did Not Attend’ (DNA) - i.e. the patient did not turn up for the appointment and did not contact the surgery in advance to cancel/change appointment. The effects of these are:

  • An increase in the waiting time for appointments
  • Frustration for both staff and patients
  • A waste of resources
  • A potential risk to the health of the patient

Please note: Due to an increase in the number of wasted appointments, through patients failing to attend appointments without informing the surgery, it has become necessary to implement the following policy:

If you repeatedly fail to attend appointments you will be removed from this practice list and required to find an alternative GP practice as per our policy.

If you cannot attend your appointments for any reason please let us know as soon as possible, giving at least 24 hours’ notice. We can then offer the appointment to someone else.

Explanation

Due to the number of patients failing to attend appointments, it may be that you are not able to see the doctor on the day that you wish to.

In an attempt to try and resolve this, the practice has developed the following policy:

  • If you fail to attend appointments without informing us, we will write to you informing you of your missed appointments.
  • If you repeatedly fail to attend your appointments, you may be removed from the practice list and have to find an alternative GP practice.

Share

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Bluesky
  • X (Twitter)
  • LinkedIn
Local Services
Optician
Private
Dentist
Financial
Protection

Site

  • Sign In
  • Sitemap
  • Back To Top

About

  • Disclaimer
  • Website Privacy
  • Website Accessibility
  • Cookies
  • Content Attribution

Contact

Leander Family Practice

949 London Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey, CR7 6JE

  • 020 3457 8727
© Neighbourhood Direct Ltd  2025
Website supplied by Oldroyd Publishing Group

Loading...

Local Services
Optician
Private
Dentist
Financial
Protection