title: Reducing outpatient attendances.
abstract: Outpatient attendances can be reduced by indirect contact by letter and telephone; this frees the consultant to concentrate on patients attending for the first time. Such methods have not yet been fully exploited in the National Health Service.
mesh_terms: D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011177:Postal Service; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D013222:State Medicine; D013689:Telephone; D006113:United Kingdom