Health Services: Gender

(asked on 8th November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Kamall on 26 October (HL3010), what assessment they have made of the recommendation by NHS England and NHS Improvement that the Universal Information Standards for sex and gender should include (1) the gender identity categories (a) male (including transman), (b) female (including transwoman), and (c) non-binary, and (2) a question about whether the individual’s gender identity was the same at birth.


Answered by
Lord Kamall Portrait
Lord Kamall
This question was answered on 16th November 2021

The Unified Information Standard for Protected Characteristics will assist in improving the consistency and comparability of healthcare data, improving our understanding of service access and outcomes by protected characteristics. Greater transparency should enable service improvement and assist the National Health Service in meeting its duties under equalities legislation.

The recommendations are based on the views of stakeholders as well as a comprehensive review of available evidence and literature. The report, once published, will be accompanied by further stakeholder engagement, including with groups who do not wish their sex to be redefined. The report recommends recording of sex at birth and collection of data on gender reassignment. The detail of how this recommendation could be implemented will require further stakeholder engagement in due course.

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