Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN HL1632

Medical Records

Tabled: 3 July 2026

Answered: 13 July 2026

Question

To ask His Majesty's Government when NHS England plan to update the version of the Core Information Standard on its website to reflect changes made by the Professional Record Standards Body which make the recording of sex mandatory in electronic patient r

Answer

The Professional Record Standards Body’s (PRSB) updates to the sex and gender data item representation for clinical use in the Core Information Standard have not yet been updated in the NHS England Standards Directory repository. Although these changes le...

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