Background: Non-attendance rates in psychiatric outpatient clinics have been a topic of considerable interest. It is measured as an indicator of quality of service provision. Failed attendances add to ...

Only doctors can issue sick notes. Clinic attendance letters, often issued by nurses, are not sick notes and cannot be used as such. Ekurhuleni health practitioners have noted with concern an ...

Sending parents “nudge” letters about their child’s poor school attendance can help reduce absenteeism, a new report has found. But overall there is a lack of evidence about the best methods of ...

None of the patients seen in these outpatient clinics were what would be traditionally called 'new patients' as they had already been seen by the team and in effect they were follow up appointments.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sending parents “nudge” letters about their child’s poor school attendance can help reduce absenteeism, a new report has found.