Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 37415

Medical Records: Disability

Tabled: 11 March 2025
Answered: 28 March 2025
Named Day

Question

Catherine Atkinson

LabourDerby North

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an estimate of the number of NHS patients who have registered to have adjustments made to their patient record under the Accessible Information Standard.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
Under the Equality Act 2010, public sector organisations are required to make changes in their approach or provision to ensure that services are accessible to disabled people, as well as to everybody else, by making reasonable adjustments.National Health ...

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