Question follow-through · 13651
NHS: Postal Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made any estimate of the proportion of missed appointments which have resulted from delays in receiving posted letters.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 26 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 6 Jul 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
26 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made any estimate of the proportion of missed appointments which have resulted from delays in receiving posted letters.
30 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jul 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
Possible follow-up questions
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