Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 14990

Medical Records: Gender

Tabled: 1 July 2026

Answered: 8 July 2026

Named Day

Question

Claire Coutinho

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will instruct NHS England to implement the revisions to the Professional Records Standards Body's Core Information Standard on data items relating to sex and gender.

Answer

Preet Kaur Gill

The Professional Records 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 l...

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