Tailored, more inclusive approaches to recovery are critical, and a civil and human right.' Th ese are the words of a gay man who attended an NHS rehab program for alcoholism in which he felt the service did not meet his needs in considering the links between his addiction and sexuality (Prest, 2017). Th is is the kind of situation in which the confi dential monitoring of patients' sexual orientation could lead to patients and service users who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) receiving better, more bespoke services from the NHS, and one of the reasons that NHS England and NHS Digital have published a new standard to improve the recording of sexual orientation data. Monitoring this data will enable health and social organizations to demonstrate that they provide equal access to services for LGBT individuals and contribute to the improvement of care providers' understanding of inequalities in health and care outcomes for different populations. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.