Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that all termination of pregnancy providers record patient NHS numbers on HSA1 and HSA4 forms.
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.