New policy posted to the clinic’s Facebook page on Monday.
Over the past three months the La Ronge Medical Clinic has had nearly 750 of their patients no show scheduled appointments.
During that same time period a spokesperson for the clinic says they have turned away over 450 patients because of previously scheduled appointments.
That’s why the clinic has introduced a new policy, which restricts those who have no showed at least twice in the past three months to walk-ins for their next appointment.
“We don’t want it to be a punishment,” said Clinic Manager Rhonda Oliver. “We just want to say that we have people who are really sick and if you are not going to attend your appointment please call ahead and cancel so we are not turning people away.”
Oliver says once the no-shows attend two walk-ins they will be able to pre-book their appointments again. She says this is a temporary measure that they plan to revisit in the coming months.
On average during the months of August, September and October Oliver says the clinic had between 8 and 20 no shows every day.
“We could have seen a whole lot more people if we had cancellations,” she said.