Health And Care Number

[jennyjoan]

Where could a friend of mine find hers - she needs it for first time registering with a dentist. Thanks

[Mamyalynne]

//Where Can I Find My Health and Care Number (H&C Number)?



If your medical card was issued after 2005, your Health and Care Number (H&C Number) is printed on it.



If you have an older medical card issued before 2005, your Health and Care Number (H&C Number) will not be printed on it. In this case, you can find out your Health and Care Number (H&C Number) by:

Contacting your GP Practice and asking them to look it up for you.

Checking any recent correspondence from the NHS, e.g. hospital appointment letters. Your Health and Care Number (H&C Number) will be stated on the letter.

Checking a recent prescription from your GP. Your Health and Care Number (H&C Number) will be stated on the prescription.

[fiction-factory]

Sounds like an Northern Ireland term. Is it like the NHS number? If so does she have a medical card as my NHS number is on there- I have although I can't remember ever using it since it was an accepted form of ID maybe 30 years ago

[fiction-factory]

Sorry Mamyalynne- i took too long to post. I've never heard the term before but it clearly is used in Northern Ireland

[jennyjoan]

thanks both. her best way is of contacting the doctor as she has no medical card at all - it was lost in the post some years ago and she never chased it up. H&C letters from hospital etc - throws them out right away.

Doctors is the best. Thanks again.

[Mamyalynne]

Welcome.