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I rang the surgery and got my NHS number over the phone after proving I was me. NP.

PS I still have my original brown NHS card, the one my mother had for me and she handed over to me when I got married, that says my number is MOSK and about four numbers.

But apparently it's now a string of 10 numbers.

I haven't got a card with it on. It isn't on my EHIC and it isn't on my (expired) Prescription Charge Medical Exemption card - haven't bothered asking anyone to renew it, since I'm now over 60. I presumed I didn't need to?
 
trophywench said:
I rang the surgery and got my NHS number over the phone after proving I was me. NP.

PS I still have my original brown NHS card, the one my mother had for me and she handed over to me when I got married, that says my number is MOSK and about four numbers.

But apparently it's now a string of 10 numbers.

I haven't got a card with it on. It isn't on my EHIC and it isn't on my (expired) Prescription Charge Medical Exemption card - haven't bothered asking anyone to renew it, since I'm now over 60. I presumed I didn't need to?
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Mine's expired too cos us Waleans (?) don't pay for scripts. 😛

Rob
 
trophywench said:
The one thing that isn't on mine is my NHS number - is it on anyone else's?

The reason why I ask, I had to put it on a form (for something to do with NHS) the other day and the form helpfully said 'You will find this on the top of any prescriptions' LOL
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Yeah J its on mine but only recently started appearing
 
I have noticed that my prescription has gradually change recently to contain more information than previously, but nothing other than patient id. A lady in the surgery in a stage whisper said Do you think they are doing it a little at a time in case a big change is too much for us. See then shrieked with laughter.😱
 
If my doctor has got my NI number, then he didn't get it from me...

I got my when I was 16 and still at school with a year to go, but my parents didn't hold onto it.. That was our responsibility we all had our little 'safe Box's' to keep it in..
 
Ellie Jones said:
If my doctor has got my NI number, then he didn't get it from me...

I got my when I was 16 and still at school with a year to go, but my parents didn't hold onto it.. That was our responsibility we all had our little 'safe Box's' to keep it in..
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Ellie. no one is talking about NI numbers it's NHS numbers. They are completly different things. 🙂
 
PS I still have my original brown NHS card, the one my mother had for me and she handed over to me when I got married, that says my number is MOSK and about four numbers.

But apparently it's now a string of 10 numbers
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I wonder when they changed, the number used to be the same as the number on your birth certificate (and I know that one and my NI number off by heart)
I found out they had changed when I tried to use an EHIC in an NHS drop in centre and they hadn't anywhere to put it on the computer. I told her I could tell her my NHS number if she wanted, but it was too short!
 
on graham i have when it was the last order i never had a review and how many i can order maybe children are different ?
 
Actually, DWP (Dept of Work & Pensions) does state National Insurance number when asking GP to comment on applications for Disability Living Allowance, for example, so that type of letter will be scanned and kept on file. Applications for DLA for children need an appointee, usually a parent, who states their (not child's) NI number, as children don't get NI number until age 16 years, as others have stated.
 
Going off on a tangent to NI numbers, I've been told that people get a card with it on nowadays.

I always have to look on an occ pension payslip if I need mine for anythng.
 
No such thing as a Credit Card when I was 16, Ellie they hadn't been invented, and they ceratinly haven't sent me an NI card since ! Nor Pete.
 
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