United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 40897
Medical Records: Gender
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24 March 2025
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2 April 2025 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of mandating changes to NHS systems to ensure that it is possible to update the gender marker associated with an NHS number.
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24 March 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of mandating changes to NHS systems to ensure that it is possible to update the gender marker associated with an NHS number.
Source: Commons
2 April 2025
Answer
Sex and gender identity are not always the same thing, and it is important for patients that we record both accurately. On 20 March 2025, my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care instructed the health service to immediately sus...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-03-24/40897
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1788055
- uk · wq-1788055 · source updated 2 April 2025