ALMOST 10 per cent of patients with an outpatient appointment at the Royal Bolton Hospital did not show up in August.
There was an increase of 0.5 per cent during last month as 9.4 per cent of patients did not attend for their appointments.
The rate for patients who did not attend appointments they had booked through the new computerised booking system, was 7.7 per cent.
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