Question follow-through · 120334
NHS: Postal Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of NHS appointments missed as a result of delays in the delivery of appointment letters by Royal Mail in the last 12 months.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 23 Mar 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of NHS appointments missed as a result of delays in the delivery of appointment letters by Royal Mail in the last 12 months.
16 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Mar 2026
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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