questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS of repeat appointments, replacement sample kits and additional clinical activity caused by postal delays.
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