Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what happens to the disciplinary records of (a) doctors and (b) nurses when they change (i) gender and (ii) name.

Healthcare workers are issued with a unique staff number when they are first appointed into a National Health Service position. This number is one of the main identifiers for personnel records and does not change during their term of employment. This is regardless as to whether the employee changes their gender and/or name.

Employers are required to retain information about their employees in accordance with employment, gender recognition and data protection laws and must follow good human resources practice, this includes any information that might be held about an individual’s disciplinary record.