questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of routine cases becoming urgent as a result of appointment letters being delayed in the post on the NHS.
answerText: The monitoring of National Health Service patient correspondence, including appointment letters, is the responsibility of individual NHS providers. Data is not held centrally on the reasons why an appointment is registered as a ‘did not attend’. This incl...
heading: NHS: Postal Services