HC Deb 07 November 2002 vol 392 c508W
Dr. Fox

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to his answer of 15 October 2002,Official Report, column 795W, what access to information on a patient's religious affiliation a hospital chaplain will have in the event of needing to administer the last rites to an unconscious persion in extremis. [78301]

Ms Blears

Where a patient is incapable of providing consent, perhaps through serious or terminal illness, it is possible for hospital staff to disclose their religious affiliation to a hospital chaplain, as this may in the circumstances be in the best interests of the patient concerned.

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