Burma: Sanctions
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Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether all abortions commissioned by NHS England from private providers are recorded in the abortion statistics.
This question was answered on 13th May 2014
It is a legal requirement for a medical practitioner terminating a pregnancy to notify the Chief Medical Officer on form HSA4 within 14 days of the procedure whether it is undertaken in an National Health Service hospital or in the independent sector. All procedures are recorded in Abortion Statistics, England and Wales published annually.