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The NHS will soon have its own dedicated postage class, a move the Health Secretary says will prevent patients from "missing appointments" due to delayed mail. Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, ...

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He said achieving the new targets would be made possible by reducing the number of missed or cancelled appointments, which stood at about 700,000 last year. He went on to say that if patients ...

Last year 700,000 outpatient appointments were missed and many tens of thousands of appointments are cancelled on the day which stops other people being able to access them. For our free daily ...