Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government which NHS Trusts require patients to provide two forms of identification before they can receive treatment; and whether this applies to persons who attend accident and emergency departments or urgent care units for accident and emergency urgent treatment.

A small number of trusts are requiring patients to provide identification before they receive treatment.

Care deemed by a clinician to be urgent or immediately necessary must never be withheld until payment is received. Where treatment is considered to be immediately necessary in order to save a patient’s life or to prevent their condition from being life-threatening, treatment must not be delayed or withheld in order to establish their chargeable status.