Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to require NHS hospitals to record the date of catheterisation as part of a patient's care record.

Recording the date of catheterisation is part of professional record keeping within health and social care. Medical and nursing professions have outlined standards for record keeping in the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Code and the General Medical Council’s good medical practice. NHS England has published guidance and tools to support record keeping and there are plans to enhance these resources through the use of digital media.