Patient ID numbers in the UK's National Health Service
When I lived in England my medical cards always bore my patient ID of 5 letters, 3 numbers. That numbering system is now obsolete. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mst3kmoxie and I, previously having used the NHS in England, have our Scottish medical cards bearing both a 10 digit NHS number and a 6-4 digit CHI number; our children's show both a 3-2-4 NHS number and a 6-4 CHI number. I am surprised by the 3-2-4 format of my children's: I wonder if it is just an oddly spaced NHS number without its check digit.
mst3kmoxie and I, previously having used the NHS in England, have our Scottish medical cards bearing both a 10 digit NHS number and a 6-4 digit CHI number; our children's show both a 3-2-4 NHS number and a 6-4 CHI number. I am surprised by the 3-2-4 format of my children's: I wonder if it is just an oddly spaced NHS number without its check digit.