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The availability of a health service is sometimes described in terms of the number of facilities within a region, although a facility’s presence does not necessarily make its services accessible to every resident. Distance is one possible obstacle, but the time of an appointment, the cost of travel, and the clarity of the booking process may also affect whether a person can actually obtain care. A service can therefore be geographically nearby and still be difficult to use for people whose working hours or transportation options are constrained.

Suppose a hypothetical clinic introduces an online booking system that reduces the average time spent arranging an appointment among people who successfully use it. That improvement would be relevant, but it would not reveal how many people abandoned the process because they lacked a suitable device or could not understand the instructions. Evaluating only completed bookings could consequently produce an incomplete picture by excluding precisely those residents for whom the new arrangement created a barrier.

A fuller assessment would consider both successful users and people who tried, or needed, to use the service but did not complete the process. Maintaining an alternative booking channel may help some groups, while feedback about unsuccessful attempts can identify steps that require clearer language or different support. The central issue is not whether digital arrangements are desirable in general, but whose experiences are represented when their effectiveness is measured and whose difficulties remain outside the record.