UK NHS Number

ID uknhsnum

DatatypePersonal data (PII)identifier

NHS numbers are the unique numbers allocated to registered users of the three public health services in England, Wales and the Isle of Man; the three health systems use a shared numbering scheme.

Categories

Personally identifiable information, Person related, Medical/pharma identifiers

Countries

United Kingdom

Languages

English

AutoType benchmark

nhs

W3C DPV

pd:OfficialID

HL7 FHIR identifier system

https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/nhs-number

FTA

IDENTITY.NHS_UK

Google DLP

UK_NATIONAL_HEALTH_SERVICE_NUMBER

Presidio

UK_NHS

Microsoft Purview

U.K. national health service number

python-stdnum

stdnum.gb.nhs

Quality

75/100 · missing: examples, negative example, translation

Metacrafter rules

4 rules (2 by field name, 2 by value)

uknhsnumfield field, gb/gb_persons.yaml
uknhsnumvalue data, gb/gb_persons.yaml
gb_pii_uknhsnumfield field, pii/gb/gb_pii.yaml
gb_pii_uknhsnumvalue data, pii/gb/gb_pii.yaml

Supported by tools

Amazon Macie, Auto-Type, Amazon Comprehend, AWS Glue Sensitive Data Detection, Azure AI Language PII detection, Cloudflare DLP, Collibra Data Classification, Databricks Unity Catalog data classification, Datadog Sensitive Data Scanner, DataPrep, FTA (Fast Text Analysis), Google Cloud Sensitive Data Protection (DLP), IBM Security Guardium Analyzer, metacrafter, Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Nightfall AI, OpenMetadata auto-classification, Microsoft Presidio, python-stdnum

Regular expression

^([0-9]{3})[- ]?([0-9]{3})[- ]?([0-9]{4})$

Python re syntax.

Sources

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

Use this record

Page URL: https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/uknhsnum
JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
Improve it: edit data/datatypes/GB/persons/uknhsnum.yaml on GitHub