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Looking up a person in NHS records #307
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* "gender" referring to the PDS field of the same name |
update For anyone building services that require a PDS lookup or anyone following the work last year on sex/gender questions. See below for an update from the PDS team: The change is available now in our sandbox and integration test environments. It will be available in production from this Friday. This is a non-breaking change – if you are searching with gender, this will continue to work as-is. For more details, see This is a very big win for inclusive design so thank you to everyone who helped champion this cause. And special thanks to the PDS team for all the hard work to make this happen. |
notes Hint text: the dependency on context. The contrast between a "clerical" service setting (ie Find my NHS number) where hints tie quite closely to "registered GP" and a care service (like 111) where hints are simpler (or even not there at all). A clinical service may acceptably take a hit on matches, as there's scope to re-attempt PDS further on in a healthcare journey. A "clerical" service could aim for more precision around field descriptions, as further attempts at matching might not be a viable route. |
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See also Asking users for sex or gender |
What:
Looking up a person in NHS records by using demographic details.
It is often helpful for clinicians to have sight of information about a user,
including their summary care record.
Public-facing digital systems can attempt to "match" a person to the data held in
the personal demographics service (PDS) - https://digital.nhs.uk/services/demographics
Data returned from the demographics service can enable someone with the correct
authority to then access summary care records and other useful clinical information.
Why
Several digital services attempt to successfully "look up" users in order to
provide useful and time saving information to clinicians and users:
The existing PDS service can be queried using four pieces of required demographic
data:
"gender"*We want to establish a best practice approach to:
avoid asking about "gender"asking "gender" in a sensitive fashion if it must be askedexplaining when asking "gender" might be necessaryThe text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: