Lord Pattenasked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Warner on 20 October ( WA86–7), when the project to look at practical ways in which National Health Service trusts can obtain patient consent in order to share information about patients with their chaplaincy teams will be completed; and whether the results will be published; and [HL4667]
29WAFurther to the Written Answer by the Lord Warner on 20 October (WA87), whether the Department of Health or Birmingham and the Black Country Strategic Health Authority issued written guidance on the recording of the religious affirmation of its in-patients and the passing on of this information to National Health Service hospital chaplains within the trust's area to the Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull National Health Service Trust; and, if so, whether they will place a copy of such guidance in the Library of the House. [HL4668]
§ Lord WarnerThe project is expected to be completed during 2005 and the results will be made publicly available.
The Department of Health issued written guidance to all National Health Service trusts in November 2003.
A copy of the guidance, NHS Chaplaincy: Meeting Religious and Spiritual Needs of Patients and Staff, has been placed in the Library.