Recording patient ethnicity

November 30, 2020

There is a national requirement to increase the percentage of ethnic codes recorded on our Trust systems against our patients. Colleagues are reminded of the importance of asking patients their ethnic category when they attend the Trust as an inpatient, outpatient, direct admission or if they attend ED.

From 2 December, Ward clerks/Matrons will receive daily automated email from sqlmessenger.user if they have not captured patient’s ethnicity within their ward. Please reply to viral.bhatt@nhs.net if you think you have received email incorrectly.

The ethnic category is contained within the patient details page within IPM, the tab is labelled as “sensitive” but this is where the ethnic category should be recorded.

Please see below image for details.