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Wes Streeting has refused to rule out introducing fines for patients missing NHS appointments in the future. The Health Secretary suggested he could be convinced to implement fines for no-shows if his plans to reform the NHS do not fix the number of people missing appointments. NHS figures show about eight million hospital appointments are missed every year, which is around one in every 15.It costs the health service more than ￡1 billion a year in wasted time.Mr Streeting said he wasn’t consider