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Patients: Ethnic Groups

Commons · Question 26496 · 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, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of updating the national mandatory standard for the (a) collection and (b) analysis of ethnicity to include (i) Jewish, (

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...