A £10 fine for patients who frequently miss NHS hospital appointments in Wales would be introduced by the Conservatives if they win power at next year's assembly elections.

New figures show 1.2m appointments were missed at Welsh hospitals alone in the last three years. The party said that wastes time and costs the NHS around £60m a year. The health minister said a fine would be complicated to bring in, while GP bodies criticised the plan. The figures do not include missed GP appointments, but an inquiry last year by theassembly's public accounts committee found patients failed to turn up for more than one in 10 GP appointments - up to 600,000 per year.....Read more here