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Evening Standard
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Helen William

Plans to cut Royal Mail deliveries ‘could worsen patient safety risks’

Plans to cut the number of Royal Mail deliveries could worsen patient safety risks, the leaders of organisations including NHS Providers and Healthwatch England have said.

Royal Mail has proposed that first class mail be kept as a six-days-a-week service but that second class letter deliveries be cut dramatically.

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