Asking about patients’ sexual orientation is not routine, even among medical professionals who specialize in sexual health. About half of the medical professionals surveyed by John Hopkins ...

We recently added new questions about sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) to MyChart, our electronic medical record system and our patient-check-in process. Our health system believes that ...

NHS England has recommended that sexual orientation monitoring (SOM) occurs at every face to face contact with the patient, where no record of this data already exists.[1] Why is it a contentious ...

NHS England chiefs face a rebellion from doctors and nurses over new guidelines that say every patient over the age of 16 must be asked to declare their sexual orientation.

But then I read NHS England’s new ‘standard for sexual orientation monitoring’ more closely and they lost me… at ‘face to face’. The new guidance states clearly: ‘We recommend that sexual orientation ...