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Patients: Jews

Commons · Question 26493 · Tabled 27 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 5 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Preet Kaur Gill

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of implementing recommendation 6 of the NHS Race & Health Observatory's report entitled Review of NHS health communications with (and for) the Je

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 5 Feb 2025

The merits of including Jewish or Sikh as an option when recording ethnicity in National Health Service data, and other issues relating to how the NHS records information on protected characteristics, are being considered by the Unified Information Standa...