Claim: 14 million GP appointments are missed every year.
Fact-check: The total number of missed GP appointments - Full Fact
Verdict: that's one estimate, based on a survey of 500 gps in 2015. no-one routinely collects information about the total number of missed gp appointments in england.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Richard Braham
Date published: 2017-01-27T00:00:00