Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether termination of pregnancy providers have a duty to record the NHS numbers of their patients.
Recording of National Health Service numbers is a matter for termination of pregnancy providers and their commissioners. Registered medical practitioners are already legally required to provide either the woman’s NHS number, her hospital reference number or her name on the HSA4 form. The Government has no plans to require the collection of NHS numbers on the HSA1 form.