Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 26496
Patients: Ethnic Groups
Tabled: 27 January 2025
Answered: 5 February 2025
Question
Preet Kaur Gill
Labour (Co-op) — Birmingham Edgbaston
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
Karin SmythThe 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...
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