Facts about your old NHS number in England

[ScouseBoy]

There was a discussion earlier today about NHS numbers.

There is now a new system of NHS numbers, but for a period between 1955 and 1995  the NHS number was allocated on th birth registration. See Wikipedia for details

[JenB]

Please would you give a link to the relevant page on Wikipedia?

[ScouseBoy]

The title of the page is NHS numbers

When I. Registered my children's births in England, the birth certificate contained their  NHS number,

And that was the case between 1955 and 1995

[Ruskie]

Where did I get my NHS number from?

Can you provide a link to the Wikipedia page please?

[KGarrad]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_number

It does say:
Between 1969 and July 1995, the old-style NHS number was used on a baby's birth certificate as the reference number for the certificate.

[Ruskie]

I can't be bothered trying to find my children's b/cs to check. Does this mean that the certificate number and the NHS number were one and the same within that time frame?

What about people not born in 'England'? Where do their NHS numbers come from? Over to you to answer that one Scouseboy .....

Just had a quick read of that Wiki article - is that true about the numbers and the calculations which have to be added and divided and add up to a certain number etc?  It's an oddly written article.

[rayard]

I haven't read the Wiki article yet but on my son's certificate (1972) the certificate number consists of two  letters and six numbers on the far left-hand corner and an NHS number left-hand corner inside the red box edge.
This is on a full certificate, I don't know about the "short" version.
rayard.

[[Ray]]

Hi

Are you asking about old-style NHS numbers eg MABU 21
OR
later/current National Insurance numbers ( aka NI No ) eg YA 164521 B [ last char ABCD were suffices indicating year quarter - I notice not used on my HMRC tax rebate  ] ?

[ScouseBoy]

National Insurance numbers are Different things


Your NHS number is health and hospital and GP. Related