Person Characteristics

The provision of consultation with clinicians using the BIS DPS further competition (including but not limited to consultants, midwives, allied health professionals, biomedical scientists, pharmacists) in order to gather intelligence on the CLINICAL requirements relating to patient characteristics in the following areas: ethnicity, pregnancy and maternity, age, sex, gender identity/gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion and belief, disability and impairment, marriage and civil partnership. The purpose is to identify data items which are routinely needed when treating these patients, but which aren't generally available within IT systems in use in the NHS.