Millions more patients are set to receive appointment reminders, screening invitations, and test on their smartphones via the NHS app. Loading audio...

The NHS is trying to make its app the go-to method of communication between the health system and patients.

This avoids the need for at least 50 million costly letters to go through the postal system, it has claimed.

Now, 270 million messages are expected to be sent through the NHS App this year thanks to more than £50 million worth of investment. That's up 70 million from last year.

Patient in England will receive all appropriate NHS messages through the App first, and where app messaging is not available, communications will be sent via SMS and then by letter as a last resort.

The Health Department says this "digital revolution" wil

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