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Patients: Sikhs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS services allow patients to identify as (a) Sikh under ethnicity questions and (b) Sikhism as their religion.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
27 Jan 2025
Target answer date
29 Jan 2025
Answer
5 Feb 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 27 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS services allow patients to identify as (a) Sikh under ethnicity questions and (b) Sikhism as their religion.

  2. 29 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The merits of including Jewish or Sikh as an option when recording ethnicity in National Health Service data, and other issues relating to how the NHS records information on protected characteristics, are being considered by the Unified Information Standa...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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