A St Luke's Hospital official recently said on television that up to 41 per cent of outpatient appointments were not honoured. This was taken to partly explain the long waiting lists for appointments.

The overcrowding I witnessed on a visit to the outpatients block at St Luke's the other day made me shudder to think what would happen if everybody did honour their appointments.

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