NHS trusts face Stonewall scrutiny on LGBT inclusion

“Department of Health pulls out of Stonewall scheme amid single-sex wards row”

From the telegraph. Oops darn...

This is taxpayers money.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4390721-Baroness-Nicholson-letter-RE-Stonewalls-influence-in-the-NHS

Please sign Baroness Nicholson's letter asking for an urgent review of Stonewall's suitability and independence (hollow laugh).

Clipboard will be inserted?

I rather hope one of their rainbow assessors with a clipboard comes my way (though I doubt my trust is one of the participating trusts so I will be disappointed). But if I do meet one I shall say I have listened to the Nolan podcasts and concluded that Stonewall is a bullying lobbying group who have overreached their remit and spread false information. So No Thankyou. I won't be participating.

Email sent. Lets see if MP replies. I had to redraft it several times as it was looking a bit like a howler...

Keerching!

I love Stonewall's use of language
A Stonewall spokesperson is quoted: "We're proud to support the NHS Rainbow Badges programme

Support, you are being paid to do this from taxpayers!

LGB & T for sure need healthcare looked at but SW ffs

So angry , thought things were improving but it appears not. We seem to be ignored, therefore are we being conned? Are there one or two political allies who are being ignored by Civil Servants and public services. Do they believe that we'll just have to live with this because that's where we're headed. Is anyone going to look at where our money is spent - isn't there an organisation called The Taxpayers Alliance?

I think I'm going to explode. Public opinion means zilch and we are living in Orwellian times. Puff, grunt, grinds teeth, thumps table.

I had been calming down of late because of lots of coverage but I now see none of that matters.

Keep writing!

I'm fuming. My trust used to do a whole week induction for new starters to the trust, whatever their role. When DD started as an HCA fresh out of school two years ago she really enjoyed it and took it very seriously. There was clinical stuff like resuscitation, manual handling, dementia, sepsis (she was awe struck by the lovely sepsis nurse) and trust stuff like information governance, getting your IT requirements sorted, payroll, fire. There's a lot! She also enjoyed meeting new starters in their various roles.

Now, post Covid , it is all either online or "within the department". We have a new starter today, someone very experienced. But my manager has set aside the next two days to go through stuff with her and she can't start work until a lot of things have been covered off. We also have an incredibly busy day today with several difficult procedures and now we are effectively one member of staff down.
I'll be on my knees by this evening.
We also have recruited 15 new staff as the equivalent of HCA in the department (we're not a ward so the work is different) who are all being inducted as we go along. The ones that have come to my area have included a new school leaver and a top pastry chef who has decided to come to the NHS for a change. So much work supervising and training as we go along.
Let's hope someone remembers to go through the rainbow stuff with them though....
Doing this induction on the wards will be so hard for the staff, they are already so short staffed, they need support and help not extra work like this.
This is how trusts are cutting back and saving money.

I am going to have to write to my MP again. For the 3rd time in as many weeks. I am just doing my tax returns, so I am even more outraged than usual about the waste of my taxes, deducted at source by my employers, the NHS, for 40 years.

Such a total waste of money. Its scandalous. This is not what the NHS should be spending money on when people are needlessly dying due to lack of appointments/clinics/delayed screening and surgery. What can we do to raise awareness of this/complain?

Well yeah. Spend the money on staff and patients not some wee project stonewall the lobby group has said you have to,spend the money

Don’t appease stonewall

Who’s got time for this shit ? . It’s hard enough keeping the patients alive ! We desperately need more staff. Spend it on that.

That was the whole effing point of the ‘my name is’ bloody badges! So your patients could see your name (and feel comfortable) - not so you can push your bloody pronoun/shoe size/star sign on them!

Add in the number of Dr's who introduce themselves as Mr Jones/Dr Smith etc, yet assume they may use the patient first name.

LOL.
I remember a consultant gynaecologist introducing himself as Mr and proceeding to call the patient Susan. She said "If you're Mr X you can call me Mrs Y".

Yes it was

https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1444970057751306241?s=20

A TRA asked if "the terf responsible had been fired" for a complaint made about the scheme mentioned by the Rainbow Badges account.

They replied "it's an understandable but incorrect assumption that a terf was responsible"

Wasn't it one of those "rainbow badge groups" who had to delete a tweet where they called women terfs?

mobile.twitter.com/Baroness_Nichol/status/1454882689048252419

Each Trust would have to allocate time and staff to roll the benchmarked award winning culture across the organisation.
Each Trust will have a number of locations too so thats a indirect hidden cost and opportunity cost for other projects.

Add in the KPI culture can lead to target fixation to the detriment of other service user needs.

Was it not Brighton Trust who documented that staff to lie to female patients who recognised when men were placed on a female ward and were racist in comparing such a male to a Black Woman?

Fucking hell - how did Stonewall get to be judge, jury and executioner like this?

And as PP have said, what an insane waste of money.

An appalling waste of money - the NHS needs health care professionals. This is not what should going on and just shows how messed up society is when this is seen as a priority.