Patients: Jews
Commons · Question 26494 · 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, how many NHS services allow patients to identify as (a) Jewish under ethnicity questions and (b) Judaism as their religion.
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...