Currently, NHS hospital trusts can choose to send patient letters via first-class, second-class or “bulk” mail, which is used ...

The NHS and Royal Mail has secured a deal for an NHS-specific barcode on letters to ensure appointments and results are ...

NHS letters are to be given their own specific Royal Mail barcode in an move that will stop patients’ frustration over ...

The change has been made to stop patients facing the "frustration of missing appointments" caused by letters arriving late in ...

An agreement has been reached between Royal Mail and the health service to introduce a barcode system specifically for NHS letters. NHS letters are to be given their own specific Royal Mail ...

The NHS will get its own Royal Mail postage class to stop late letters leading to missed appointments. A new barcode system will be introduced to automatically identify, separate and process NHS ...

The NHS is to be given its own postage class, in a move that the Health Secretary said will stop patients facing the ...

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 ...

NHS letters are to be given their own specific Royal Mail barcode in an move that will stop patients’ frustration over missing appointments due to missing or late letters (Alamy/PA) The NHS is ...

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said an agreement between the Royal Mail and the health service to introduce a new barcode system specifically for processing NHS letters would “ensure patients ...