Hospital Patients: Use of First Name

HL Deb 15 January 2001 vol 620 c109WA

Lord Monson

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether the current practice of routinely addressing hospital patients only by their first name accords (a) with government policy and (b) with standard practice in other western countries. [HL261]

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath:

The current Patient's Charter states that staff should ask patients whether they want to be called by their first or last name and respect their preference. We do not hold information about practices in other western countries.