Health Services: Birth Certificates

(asked on 31st January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a list of the circumstances in which a person is required by law to produce or show their birth certificate in a health setting.


Answered by
Neil O'Brien Portrait
Neil O'Brien
This question was answered on 14th February 2023

We are not aware of a legal requirement for a birth certificate as the only valid identification for services in the National Health Service.

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