Medical Records: Gender
Commons · Question 40897 · Tabled 24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Pippa Heylings
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.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 2 Apr 2025
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...