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Nhs and single sex wards

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drinkswineoutofamug · 08/07/2018 13:57

I work for the nhs. For years now we have had single sexed bays apart from icu, hdu, ccu and sometimes assessment units. How will the nhs deal with the mixed bays? They are fined for single sex breaches, it's puzzling me as if this lunacy is passed, a man saying he's a woman can be placed in a female bay, just for saying he ids as a woman with no GRC. Surely this will mean that nhs England will have to draft in a whole new load of policies to deal with this, and more staff on the wards to monitor the situation. Sorry if this has been talked about before.

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justicewomen · 08/07/2018 14:21

I know this has been referred to previously but this concerns me a lot. The Equality Impact Assessment for the proposed changed to the GRA does not adequately address the large expansion in the numbers identifying as women, wishing for access to single sex spaces. Inn this case they seem to have ignored the issue of this woman's protected characteristic rights in terms of sex and disability www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/lancaster-mum-with-fear-of-men-locked-on-hospital-ward-with-transgender-patient-1-8963648

MsBeee · 08/07/2018 14:15

It’s a really important question.

UpstartCrow · 08/07/2018 14:10

It hasn't been talked about much, and it is something many of us are concerned about.
Those of us who have been on mixed sex wards have not had good experiences.

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